ickplant@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWyoming is not reallemmy.worldimagemessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up1353arrow-down14
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minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 months agoThe entire state of Wyoming has about the same number of residents as Milwaukee (~600,000) Wyoming gets 2 Senators. 1 House Rep. Milwaukee gets 0, 0. Washington DC has roughly 10% more residents than Wyoming/Milwaukee. They get 0 Senators, 0 House Reps. Puerto Rico has about 3.2 million residents. 0 Senators. 0 House Reps. … There are roughly 2.15x more cows than people in Wyoming. Conclusion: Demote Wyoming back to territory, upgrade at least Puerto Rico to State.
minus-squareOldChicoAle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoAll those places would vote blue so no way would “they” “allow” them to have voting power.
minus-squareFackCurs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoSo what are we gonna do? Accept the fait accompli? Yeah, with that attitude, nothing is gonna change for sure.
The entire state of Wyoming has about the same number of residents as Milwaukee (~600,000)
Wyoming gets 2 Senators. 1 House Rep.
Milwaukee gets 0, 0.
Washington DC has roughly 10% more residents than Wyoming/Milwaukee.
They get 0 Senators, 0 House Reps.
Puerto Rico has about 3.2 million residents.
0 Senators. 0 House Reps.
… There are roughly 2.15x more cows than people in Wyoming.
Conclusion: Demote Wyoming back to territory, upgrade at least Puerto Rico to State.
All those places would vote blue so no way would “they” “allow” them to have voting power.
So what are we gonna do? Accept the fait accompli? Yeah, with that attitude, nothing is gonna change for sure.