This is a non-issue. If the Senate were a real problem, they should propose breaking up some of the larger states to provide more representation in the Senate.
I am sure Upsate NY would love to be free from NYC, and I am willing to bet that Inland CA would love to be free from the coasts. Maybe Orange County and the Bay Area should apply for their own statehood. Let’s see how that would work out.
So rural areas a whiter, less educated, etc. than cities....
This is classical snobbery. We all know that liberals consider a college degree to be an indication of ‘higher education’. There is no value put on vocational training in welding, plumbing, electrical technology etc. Todays’ farmer has to have a lot of technical and mechanical knowledge. Are farmers considered to be uneducated - as compared to college degrees in art history, women’s studies, psychology, history of hip-hop, etc? I rest my case.
Is cofounder Colin McAuliffe related to the idiot former VA governor Terry McAuliffe?
The other D4P group cofounder is :
Sean McElwee, a co-founder of the progressive think tank Data for Progress.
Repeal 17th Amendment.
Bet Vox isn’t in favor of that..
What a tremendous crock of crap! Race, Race, Race! Everything all the time is about Race!
“lower-population states tend to be whiter, more rural, and less educated than average.”
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My old economics professor would call this lying with statistics. The problem with that statement is that it’s a straw man. States aren’t educated, people are educated. As a whole, with the exception of Asians, Whites are the most highly educated with Blacks and Hispanics much less so. Whites with college degrees tend to vote republican except for postdocs who are usually associated with academic institutions, Blacks with or without college degrees usually vote democrat. A state with a mostly white population is going to tend to be pretty highly educated, while a state with a high minority population will be poorly educated if you go by the average, remove the minorities from the population and the white population will be more educated because as we said, people are educated, not states.
Take a state like Mississippi with a 60/40 white to black ratio. It gets a lot of press as an “uneducated” state but that’s because 40% of its population is black and most don’t finish high school. The white population does pretty well on education. The state also goes republican in national elections and the split between republican and democrat is, you guessed it, usually 60/40. If you listen to the media though they’ll tell you that “uneducated” Mississippi went republican where in reality the least educated part of the population voted overwhelmingly democrat and the educated part voted republican. That’s the problem with making generalizations without understanding what actually happened.