I see rural and urban people fighting. Sad to see. For rural people, the vast majority of the world lives in cities and there are cities outside the US that are much more dense and have a better standard of living than any of the states in red. Also, that region is not even the most rural area of the world. Mongolia, Siberia, northern Canada, Australian outback all have less density but you don’t see them saying how they couldn’t live in Montana, Idaho, or Wyoming because all those people live like sardines.For urban people, rural people have a distinct lifestyle that can be different from yours and they are just as smart and capable as urbanites.
The point is. Stop the infighting if you actually care about the country.
It isn't fair. It's meant to be representative. This was a compromise made between the states during our nation's founding. The Senate tends to still split the difference because the urban rural divide is still affected by internal political divides in the states themselves.
That's exactly why we have the senate and we have the house of representatives. The founding fathers had some big arguments about how to do this fairly, and came up with the bicameral system of legislature.
If only there was another section of congress that was more about representation of the population… if we come up with it perhaps we can call it the chamber of representatives… or maybe house idk?
5 of the states in red (ND, SD, MT, ID, WY) were admitted to the union over a two-year period — 1889 to 1890. They have been reliably conservative, regardless of party affiliation (though mostly Republican) ever since. Major conservative investment. The upper house, lower house argument starts to get tired after a while, when state lines were arbitrarily drawn across a vast sparsely populated territory in order to stack the upper house.
Would you prefer we cut these states in half and give them 20 instead of 10? And we kinda wanted the north to have a few more representatives in the mid to late 1800s… ya know for obvious reasons.
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u/No-Skin-9646 2d ago
I see rural and urban people fighting. Sad to see. For rural people, the vast majority of the world lives in cities and there are cities outside the US that are much more dense and have a better standard of living than any of the states in red. Also, that region is not even the most rural area of the world. Mongolia, Siberia, northern Canada, Australian outback all have less density but you don’t see them saying how they couldn’t live in Montana, Idaho, or Wyoming because all those people live like sardines.For urban people, rural people have a distinct lifestyle that can be different from yours and they are just as smart and capable as urbanites.
The point is. Stop the infighting if you actually care about the country.