I know. My brother lives there. By the way, their population is shrinking.
I don't blame you for appreciating space and freedom. Hell, I live here in God's country (rural WI) on 100 acres. I've worked hard to get here and I love it.
However, WI, MN and the midwest in general are very tyrannical (liberal) in comparison to Florida, for example. That despite our relatively wide open spaces and general lack of major cities.
Your earlier post seemed a bit too sympathetic with the goals of the evil authors' desires. I'll assume, though, that you merely pine for freedom and do reject the remedies discussed by the tyrants in question.
Population levels have nothing to do with liberty and freedom. I don’t think Soviet Siberia was exactly a haven for liberty and peace, although relatively unpopulated. Western Europe and the east and west coasts of the US are much more densely populated, yet have much more freedom than Soviet Union did (even though yes, they have more controls than previously, see below). Tyranny can come about in low population areas (parts of Africa) or high density areas (Viet Cong). I doubt if North Korea has an overpopulation problem.
Tyranny comes not because of population levels, but because people lose the inner self discipline and motivation to control themselves, and then tyrants use the resulting crime, deceit, corruption, etc. and take advantage of that for their own evil purposes. Usually the loss of self discipline and ability for self government comes as a result of losing their inner moral compass brought about by beginning to worship self rather than God. When people don’t voluntarily govern themselves, more and more laws and regulations are made to control them externally, and tyrants use that as an excuse to put into place the regulations they desire for their own benefit, and the benefit of their cronies. Then they start taxing some and giving the benefits to other groups, and so it all keeps expanding.
I would say California and New York have lost their freedoms precisely becuase they have lost their moral compass, not because of population density.