You know the Left always whine about Wyoming having 2 red Senators and complain about the Electoral College, but they never talk about urban crapholes like Cook County controlling the rest of the state. If you remove Cook and maybe Lake Counties from IL, that state would be as red as Alabama.
Actually, if we could magically move all Section 8 housing to physical locations controlled by dems, you would get the same results.
Sadly, I believe that’s the case in most, if not all states.
The population centers and their values (or lack thereof) hold the political power and they’re the ones that establish laws and regulations that, more often than not, are abhorrent to those that live outside the urban areas.
Alas, no. It’s maybe five key cities whose votes control the Democratic Peoples Republic of Illinois...Chicago (obviously), but also Rockford, Decatur, Peoria, and Urbana-Champaign come to mind.
And yes, since the 1990s the “blue mold” has spread from Cook County into the surrounding collar counties (most notably DuPage and Lake Counties) as well.