[dowcaet]

New York City dominates New York the way Chicago dominates Illinois, but once you get a fair distance from those two cities and their metropolitan areas, both states are fairly conservative. I guess the same could be said for California once you get outside of San Francisco and LA.

[EDINVA]

The urban blight affects almost every state. Each has its major city that doesn’t represent the rest of the state, but it has the population that carries the votes. AND it’s far easier to organize a GOTV in an urban than suburban or rural area.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

New York City dominates New York the way Chicago dominates Illinois, but once you get a fair distance from those two cities and their metropolitan areas, both states are fairly conservative. I guess the same could be said for California once you get outside of San Francisco and LA.

While this is true (I live about 60 miles south of San Francisco), most of the voters in NY and California live in NYC and in LA and SF. I'd be all for splitting California into two new states - Western California, taking in the blue coastal sliver, and Inland California, incorporating the red or mostly red majority of California's territory.

At least that way, the farming communities and conservative areas of California would finally get some proper representation both within their own state and in Washington.

[huldah1776]

large cities are black holes. If there was a way to make them all like DC politically...

[ichabod1]

In California it’s once you get 60-100 miles east of the coast.