“Upstate needs to break away from the city. The two are terminally at odds in every respect. Form a new state, secede, whatever. It’s not working and is killing a beautiful part of the country.”
This is the same with most cities around the country. There really isn’t any way the voting process can represent the people of ‘Upstate’, or rural Illinois, or any other flyover area where you have a massive libtard city calling the shots. This massive strongholds of liberalism are completely dependent upon the agriculture and manufacturing of the rural areas they so arrogantly thumb their noses at. Cut off their supply of the fruits of rural hard work and see how quickly they find those dumb Christian conservative, flag waving, country folks really might be worth listening to.
This is it exactly. The way to limit the overreach by the cities is landowner voting only.
The problem could be addressed at the federal level by repealing the 17th amendment. The authors of our Constitution foresaw the problem.