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Pennsylvania is ridiculous. So close to very liberal states like NY, DE and NJ. Philadelphia is so fucking blue.
But then the rest of PA is just wild and nicknamed Pennsyltucky.
Would be nice to keep it blue.
I know the Pennsyltucky area very well. Some of the attitudes there are just so...wild.
It's way too big, it should be three states.
It's below average for the size of states. Lower 25 for area.
If you mean land shouldn't dictate how your vote counts, I couldn't agree more, but before we give a bunch of idiot republicans another couple of representatives and four more senators, let's maybe fix the representative ratio to stop punishing cities for being dense.
The average state size did not play a role at all in what I said.
It's basically already three states.
Yeah, I get what you mean, but to keep the ratio of people-to-representative the same you'd need to split the rest of Pennsylvania into 6 states(for a total of 8 new states to replace the original), because ~75% of Pennsylvanians live in urban areas.
It’s an urban/rural thing. Even in Texas, urban areas swing blue, rural swing red. It’s just that there’s vast swaths of rural areas in Texas and it’s been gerrymandered to hell. I’m assuming PA is something similar.