re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Thanks, though that’s not really an excuse for me. I know better.

Well, you still have my sympathy.

And you made a good point in the last thread that rural voters will complain no matter how things are sliced up.

I have good friends of the conservative/libertarian persuasion who moved from California to rural Nevada a decade or so ago. It’s a good fit for them - they can afford a big house, the taxes are low, they’re surrounded by like-minded people. They’re happy there, and I’m happy for them.

Of course, their new state has changed in ways they don’t like. And sure enough, they now complain loudly that their vote is drowned out by Las Vegas. (Never mind that the people in Vegas they’re complaining about probably also moved there from California for many of the same reasons they relocated.)

But then - there are 2.2 million people in metro Las Vegas, out of just over 3 million in the entire state. And another half million are in metro Reno at the other end of Nevada. If only 10% of the state’s population is rural… well, what do you expect?

(And I’d posit that Nevada is a good model for what’s happened to the rest of the country, at least in terms of urban concentration of population.)