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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Amy J who wrote (793)	11/8/2004 11:51:57 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

Re: Will America increasingly head towards a Red trend due to a higher birth rate? Well, as you pointed out yourself, a higher birth rate can eventually be balanced with a "brain drain"... Gerrymandering and the Electoral College are much more efficient at biasing US politics to the right/conservative side... You don't have a one-man-one-vote rule in the US... It takes about 150,000 people from Montana to elect a Senator whereas it takes 650,000 voters in California to elect one... Is that the ideal democracy the US government is raring to spread across the planet? It's a well-known fact that rural, thinly populated states are much more conservative, even reactionary, than urban, densely populated states (like California with 29 mil souls).