re: #10 Dark_Falcon

Hanson didn’t say that. what he said was that two regions of the country wield disproportionately large influence in determining the intellectual and cultural discourse in the USA. You can disagree with Hanson on the point, but it wasn’t a WND-style DERP fest.

It’s fucking idiotic. People vote, acreage doesn’t. The coasts have influence exactly proportional to the number of citizens who live there. It’s the desolate states like Wyoming, Utah and Idaho which, by virtue of having the same two Senators as highly populous states, have influence far beyond what their constituency warrants.