Posted on 09/05/2013 7:00:02 AM PDT by Kip Russell
Using Census data, we've figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000.
Here's the map, with said counties shaded in. Below the map is the list of all the counties, so you can see if you live in one of them.
And here's the whole list of counties that are shaded in.
Los Angeles County, CA Cook County, IL Harris County, TX Maricopa County, AZ San Diego County, CA Orange County, CA Miami-Dade County, FL Kings County, NY Dallas County, TX Queens County, NY
(rest of list at link)
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It somply isn’t right that they get to decide our fate as a Country either. Just look at it! What do big cities with huge populations know about the rest of America? Seriously?
It’s time for a new electoral college. Each state casts 1 vote, majority wins the vote. That would be more representative of America across the board!
And somply = simply
yeah, one-man, one-vote is just KEEEERAZY! Never understood it myself.
Reference to earlier thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3062826/posts
Force the people to move out of the cities.
Whoops...I must have mis-typed something when I searched for it to see if it had already been posted.
Isn’t that what Pol Pot did?
Nope. One county, one electoral college vote. As far as the cities go, put up a fence.
There is a lot of support for distributing Michigan electoral vote by district. Every district would get a certain number of electoral votes and they would be distributed to the candidate winning those districts.
Better than the winner take all system we have now where Detroit fraud selects the president for the state.
The party that controls these counties, controls the nation.
El Paso?
Spokane county is included? I never would have thought that. Population 473,000 and lots of empty space. Western counties are much larger geographically, of course.
This sort of begs the question: Why isn’t the Senate a Republican majority?
TC
The 17th amendment.
If senators were elected by the State legislatures, it probably would be Republican, or would at least have a chance.
As it is, the Senators are elected by popular vote (totally opposite of what the Founders wanted). So they represent individuals rather than the states, and those populous cities are a huge factor (along with the big money they must raise for elections from liberal and lobby groups. If they were just being elected by the small group of people in a state legislature, money would not be nearly the factor that it is).
That is why Constitution originally was written to have Senators be representing the STATES (a Senate of the States if you will), rather than how it is now. It was meant to be another balancing/separation of powers, and that has been totally lost.
And who pushed for the 17th Amendment? You guessed it, Progressives, in the early 20th century, when all the other messing up of our country really got rolling. An Article V convention to propose possible amendments to fix what is wrong with our country should have repeal of the 17th as one of its first items to propose.
Wichita KS... Sedgwick county REALLY? about 400k in Wichita last I remember
Sedgwick county itself is just a hair over a million. It is near the bottom of the list when sorted by population.
CORRECTION: half a million.
“Unless those counties become ungovernable.”
As a result of TSHTF? Or simply an excess of looters and moochers, which would pretty much describe them now. Taking a quicl look at the map I would guess that the county in Oklahoma is the only one that is not ruled by Dems.
Fortunately I am more than half way out the door of suburban DC on my way to the least populous county east of the Mississippi. Not a perfect place, but votes GOP 2:1, which is dramatically better than my current Maryland county, which is 2:1 CPUSA (D), and my precinct which is about 19:1 CPUSA. On my way there tomorrow to get it ready for winter habitation.
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