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Under the republican form of government, where all Americans are born equal before the law - none higher - and have Creator endowed rights that governments were instituted to secure - not tax, regulate nor trespass, fracturing into city-states provides no benefit.
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Under the current socialist democracy (Peoples Democratic Socialist Republic of America), where the policy is "tax and bribe", shattering the unity of the country sounds reasonable. But that only benefits the predators who can hunt with impunity as the culture turns on police, gun ownership, and other means to secure rights from attack.
Everybody wants to be a recipient - no one wants to be the donor.
As someone who lived in Georgia most of my life, GA Republicans would never go for the idea, since the very blue Atlanta metro is their cash cow. It's a significant portion of the state's economic engine, including the world's busiest airport, which they keep trying to take over from city control. They already have political control of the state, so they'd rather keep Atlanta as their convenient slave (and use and abuse it and give it no love), than break off and be another forgettable southern red state like Mississippi, with no major global city with all those Fortune 500 corporations and such.
And now as someone who lives in Washington state, same but in reverse- the Democrats have control of the state, so why would they want to reduce the boundaries of the state to the Seattle metro, and create a brand new red state out of nowhere?
So...basically a balance at the Federal level with a slight lean towards Republicans. However the states can govern themselves however they wish -- the real advantage here. Otherwise 'states rights' mean diddly squat if major metro areas have such an outsized effect on the total vote tally.
No.
38+3 = 41
33+12 = 45
Federal politics would be liberal forever. The rebalanced house would be even more imbalanced. 49% of the house would be from the 36 MSAs (the 3 conservative cities are smallest, 9 reps there). 201 liberal reps from the cities. Of the other 234:
Alaska, one of AZ from Tucson, 13 of CA non-LA/SF/SJ, 2 of CO, CT's 6, Delaware, 1 of GA, Hawaii's 2, 2 of IL non-Chicago, 1 of IN, Louisville's rep, New Orleans', Maine's 2, MA's 3 that aren't in Boston, MI's 4 non-Detroit, 1 MN, 1 MS, NH's 2, NJ's sole rep that's not NYC or Philly, NM's 3, 4 of NY not NYC, NC's 3 non-Charlotte, Toledo, OH's rep, 2 OR non-Portland, Maybe 2 from PA, RI's 2, 1 of SC's, Memphis' 1, 3 of TX's, VT's 1, 2 of VA's, 3 of WA's, and 2 of WI's would all be democrat. 74.
We'd be at a 275-160 lean. Not quite a supermajority
Federally would lean hard D.
States would lean D.
Breaking up city-states would do a whole lot to harm republicans.
But you want states rights to mean that people don't have rights. OF COURSE large metro area have a effect on the total vote tally, THATS WHERE THE VOTES ARE. They do not have an 'outsized effect', they have a perfectly proportional effect on the total vote tally of a state.
Technically RURAL areas have an "outsized effect" on all politics. In 2020 voter turnout in rural areas was greater than 73% while overall turnout was just 62.8%
We are increasingly polarized as a society and it isn't good.
Big cities -- and to some extent, their metro areas -- want certain things from the government like woke racial equity policies, to defund the police, vaccine mandates, pronoun badges, drag shows for kids, pride month for gays, violent felons released from prison w/ their voting rights automatically restored, unlimited abortions, support for Ukraine, etc., meanwhile the rest of us in rural, exurban and small town America just want the government out of our lives and to retain the ability to protect ourselves and our children (i.e. maintain their innocence from government school indoctrination).
Shouldn't we allow the big cities to govern themselves and let them form their own governments, independent from the state they are physically located in? Then the rest of us can have our states back.
All of those 'blue islands' in the sea of red that is America can stand alone in their city-state governance but have equal representation in Congress.
To qualify the metro area must be 2-3 million plus -- basically too big for the state they're in.
It's called STATE'S RIGHTS.
If a majority vote in a state makes a choice, that's it.
Here's a great example: King County, Washington has to send $3 Billion a year to 33 other counties in the state because they can't fund themselves. The solution for voters in locations that differ from them politically is to move to a state they are better aligned to. For example, unhappy Eastern Washington voters could move to Idaho. Then Idaho taxpayers could pay their bills because currently they don't have to pay state income taxes yet state taxpayers subsidize them.
You're basically talking about a "balkanization." At this point, I support balkanization--a PEACEFUL balkanization. But the left would never allow that. They would no longer have anyone to stomp their jackboot heel into the throat of and control/fleece. My opinion is that somewhere down the line, anyone desiring liberty over tyranny and subjugation will have to fight and possibly die for it. Hopefully that day will come after my sentence here has been served.
Corporations would rule both anyway. They would take advantage of red state cheap labor and lax regulation. They will also need more labor, as red areas still wouldn’t grow enough population. In comes excess blue city staters and immigrants and red areas turn blue.
No way to win this conservative folks, until you turn on corporate hegemony and the wealthy. I sadly, I don’t see that happening, so enjoy living on your rapidly shrinking real estate.
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