More people live in the red area than the purple. While LA County is represented by 2 Senators who v

[riversedge]

great pic--says it all


More people live in the red area than the purple. While LA County is represented by 2 Senators who voted AGAINST the tax bill, the purple area was represented by 14 Senators who voted FOR the bill.

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[Karadeniz]

1. Wow! That's some speecy spicy graphic!

[LonePirate]

2. Minor clarification, Heitkamp (ND) and Tester (MT) both voted No, so that's 12, not 14 Yes votes.

[brokephibroke]

3. Working on Boise and Bozeman

If enough Dems move to those growing cities, ID and MT will turn blue narrowing the gap.

[sandensea]

4. "Dakota," as Bill Maher put it, "you don't get to be TWO states!"

"And what's with Wyoming?"

"It's like someone copy-pasted Colorado - but left out all the people!"

[John Fante]

5. Tyranny of the minority.

[roamer65]

6. This is exactly why I favor MI secession and entry into the Canadian confederation.

Representation is much better in their federal government.

Plus the Province of Michigan just sounds better.

[BigmanPigman]

7. That doesn't seem to be equal representation to me.

[AJT]

8. The right has been smart enough to know this and pump 30+ years of

rightwing talk radio into rural areas.

[sandensea]

9. +1

Plus, with some people it's so easy.

The hatred was always there - they just needed someone to put it into words of them.

[druidity33]

10. I wish...

more people from the red area would want to and would be able to move to the purple areas. Liberal resettlement program? Find a struggling locality in the purple wilds and drop a thousand southern california families. Give job training to the entire community(transplants and natives) and build a Green factory, give everyone jobs at a living wage with benefits (ie Union). Rinse and repeat.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Setting up a modern community from scratch is not cheap

You don't just need to build your 'green factory' and train people for its jobs, you need to build housing for them, infrastructure, schools, healthcare capacity, businesses for their everyday needs. Yes, in the long run, you can make profits that keeps it all going, but before that, you're competing against someone who builds the factory somewhere that has most of that already available, and just needs a little expansion of existing capacity to incorporate a new thousand-family factory.

For the sake of hoping that people who take it up will be particularly 'liberal', rather than folks in general, it seems a long shot.

[druidity33]

12. Well, it's a long term investment...

That would hopefully pay for itself. I suggest training people for the trades because i suspect they would need to work on the housing infrastructure as soon as they got there. This would have to be thoughtout thoroughly, but let's say the municipality offered the empty/vacant housing for rehab to the settlers? Pay the settlers a salary for a year (contract renegotiable yearly), if some decide to be teachers or train to be nurses or busdrivers, so be it. Advertise it as a liberal program and conservatives won't want to do it, and if they do maybe it will change their minds. The factory would of course be an employee owned coop with a LEED platinum rating providing an essential product. Make it a 10 year plan and consider sending relevant waves of settlers... maybe call it CaliCorps? Just spitballin'... but it would feed 2 birds with one handful, if you know what i mean.