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Also, the large urban cities are diverse, cosmopolitan, lively areas. If only it were possible to break away. And indeed some of the states Trump won were narrow wins. E.g., he won PA by 67,000 votes. AZ by 91,000 votes, Florida by 113,000 votes...
Clinton strategy wasn't complicated: match Obama's big margins Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and run up even bigger scores in the vote-rich Philadelphia suburbs (New York wanna be's), areas that together account for almost half the state's vote.
In the other thread he started, he says he's a minority male in his mid-20s. And here I always took him to be a female.
Is the mid-20's a nod to his IQ, or his age?
Seriously, he is straight-up comedy gold. I mean "big cities breaking away from their respective states"?
Thanks for the lulz, OP. You may very well have a future as a stand up comedian. If you do hit it big, don't forget us little people who gave you your start.
Seriously, he is straight-up comedy gold. I mean "big cities breaking away from their respective states"?
Thanks for the lulz, OP. You may very well have a future as a stand up comedian. If you do hit it big, don't forget us little people who gave you your start.
And form their own state! They all got heavily trolled in this election! They overwhelmingly reject trump but the rural areas made trump win like 1% overall and all these big cities are now forced to vote for trump.
Think about it, these major cities are the economic powerhouses of their states and attract Tourism, investment and human capital in that state. Their metropolitan area have more people than many small states that trump won
Without the population centres, the states that trump won narrowly thanks to rural areas will just be another West Virginia or South Dakota.
I really don't know where people come up with these kooky ideas. Aside from the absurdity of having cities becoming states, they would implode within a few years.
Many of the cites you mentioned need the surrounding suburbs to support the city with tax dollars, as the urban hell holes have too many takers and not enough producers to be self sustaining.
For example in Miami-Dade, some of the more affluent suburbs broke away and created their own cities. Miami-Dade immediately passed rules prohibiting this because they were going to be left with all the ghetto areas with no tax base, but the highest per capita consumers of city services such as police, fire & rescue.
So while these cities do have high concentrations of people that vote for politicians who will care for them from cradle to grave with other peoples money, they are hardly capable of functioning as a city, much less a state.
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Problem the splitting Red and Blue is most Red State cities are Blue and most rural counties in Blue States are red. So the split would not be along state lines. Greece had a league of cities, Blue America would look something like that.
If you can't break away, maybe just 'build a wall' to keep all the deplorables out?
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