New California has filed to become the "51st" US state

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Errorist76 said:

irstupid said:

That is their point. They don't have representation in their mind. If you look at the map showing who wants to break away, its covers like 95% of the total land area, yet I would guess they only represent 30% of the total population. Thus you have the highly populated urban areas electing all of the government in that state. The officials running for government there know this and thus pander to the urban areas and make all the rules that benefit the urban area.

It's the very reason we don't have a popular vote for president, but the one we have. It's so that people running for president don't just pander 100% to the huge cities and ignore 95% of the rest of the country.

Last I knew voting works by voice, not by land mass.

It's not by land mass, but by demographics. The rural areas or small cities want completely different things than the big urban cities.

Take video games since we are on this site. How would you like it if every time a publisher was to make a new game they would send out a poll to the masses on what type of game it should be. There are more FPS fans than any other, so every single game from every publisher is a fps game.  Or how about when the Wii was released and they did a poll. The masses would have voted that they want every single game made to be motion controlled cause WIi Sports was fun. Would us forum dwellers on this site like that? We got outvoted, so we can't complain right. Democracy.

It's the same for those non big city places. The governors/senators/ect are making laws that benefit or help the people in the city and either are detrimental to other people or ignore them completely. They wouldn't care about the rural areas cause the number of voters there is insignificant to the big city.

Mob rule is never good rule.