re: #200 Jack Burton

This is neither a realistic nor desirable option. No Russian Scheme“plan” to split CA has been put forth that ever results in a Democratic majority. No Democrats want this, it’s always the GRUGOP throwing this crap out as a way to super-gerrymander the Senate.

A much more realistic, but still not going to happen plan is combining a few of these GOP majority almost completely empty states that have a lower population than the city I live in.

If I had my way, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska would be combined into one state. It would still be in the lower half of the US in population. No one in any of those states would want it either.

Look at our options. We can’t do that and we can’t amend the Constitution to make the Senate either more representative or to strip it of power like most upper houses, because the small states will block it. we can give DC and Puerto Rico statehood, and we can gerrymander new democratic majority states out of the California superstate. Don’t tell me it can’t be done; California has 40 million people, as many as the 22 smallest states combined, and far more of them are Democrats than Republicans.