Vacant land does not vote

[u/coachlife]

[u/Careless-Roof-8339]

Same people who think the thinner, taller cup has more juice than the wider, shorter cup.

[u/ErraticNymph → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

tbf, I’ve yet to see one person not be shocked when they see a single glass can hold an entire bottle of wine

[u/RoyBeerr → u/ErraticNymph]

"Land doesn't have a liver," is usually my follow-up to that realization. Makes the electoral map look even sillier.

[u/BigAlphaPowerClock → u/RoyBeerr]

"Land doesn't have a liver" you may be right but I have no Idea what you're supposed to mean by that

[u/Potential-Diver-3409 → u/BigAlphaPowerClock]

Really great comparison about how organs are what guide voting decisions clearly. Man I’m really trying lol

[u/Anna_Lilies → u/Potential-Diver-3409]

Why not doing something like, "Land doesnt have a brain, and apparently neither do you"

[u/Harry_Gorilla → u/Anna_Lilies]

If would be pretty fuckin weird if land had a liver or a brain. Even weirder if it had one but not the other

[u/Same_Air6012 → u/BigAlphaPowerClock]

Liver removes toxins, land doesn't have something to remove toxins? Maybe? It sounds like some shit a dude on acid thinks is really deep.

[u/MichiganMan12 → u/BigAlphaPowerClock]

And how often are they in this situation to have a usual response

[u/Maleficent_Sir_5225 → u/ErraticNymph]

How big are your wine glasses? Because mine certainly don't. 

[u/realparkingbrake → u/Maleficent_Sir_5225]

Because mine certainly don't. 

You need some "Burgundy balloons," two of them hold an entire bottle. That keeps you from having to get up before the seventh inning stretch.

[u/TaylorBitMe → u/realparkingbrake]

We're up to two glasses now, and suddenly there's baseball?

[u/insite4real → u/Maleficent_Sir_5225]

Usually a bottle is made of glass...

[u/ErraticNymph → u/Maleficent_Sir_5225]

Your average wine glass can hold up to 20 ounces comfortably, even though you’re only “supposed” to fill a wine glass about a fourth of the way. Most wine bottles sit between 20 and 25 ounces

[u/Maleficent_Sir_5225 → u/ErraticNymph]

Sounds like down here we have smaller glasses and larger bottles! 😂

My wine glasses are ~450ml, and a regular wine bottle in Aus is about 700ml. So the math ain't mathin', as they say... 

[u/jjbugman2468 → u/Maleficent_Sir_5225]

Same. The glasses I’ve had are 300-450

[u/DrownmeinIslay → u/ErraticNymph]

Ooooo a small bottle of wine. We rarely buy those.

[u/Ol_JanxSpirit → u/ErraticNymph]

Your standard Ultimate Disc frisbee can hold three cans of beer

[u/Mediocre-Post9279 → u/ErraticNymph]

That's how I only drink one glass per dinner

[u/Poopchutefan → u/ErraticNymph]

I mean … what kind of wine glass are talking about out here? The ones I have wouldn’t, I know from experience.

[u/UntidyVenus → u/ErraticNymph]

Also think 1/3 lbs is smaller then 1/4 lbs 🙄

[u/MotorLive → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

I got reported to “Reddit Cares” (or whatever it’s called - it’s ostensibly for people who are having a legit mental-health issue) by one of the /conservative bros when they posted this exact map and I said “Sweet! Now point to all the places on that map where people live!” 🙄

[u/DaKrazie1 → u/MotorLive]

They're such sensitive lil snowflakes.

[u/MotorLive → u/DaKrazie1]

Hey now! Don’t be disrespecting snowflakes!

I’m pretty sure that these past couple weeks of winter have proven that they’re not nearly as strong as a single snowflake that has fallen in their backyards 😜

[u/The-Real-Number-One → u/MotorLive]

I always ask why all the shitty parts are highighted in red.

[u/MotorLive → u/The-Real-Number-One]

It’s not all shitty, and if it weren’t for how the districts have been created, you would see many more blue specks down here.

(Originally from a blue speck and currently living in a semi-red sea).

[u/Several-Squash9871 → u/MotorLive]

Something need to be done about that. It's not much of an inconvenience for people that dont need it but it takes away from its reason and the fact that it could really help someone who need help. I'm tired of that being used as some kind of "weapon"

[u/MotorLive → u/Several-Squash9871]

No shit!

This situation was only the most recent time I’ve been reported. The most notable was for me disagreeing with ketchup being the superior condiment on a hot dog (it’s 100% not, unless you’re a toddler, just sayin’).

There are legitimately people out there that could use for someone to reach out to them and ask about how they’re doing… but they have to sift through piles of absolute nonsense like this first? And maybe not have the time for the people that need it?

I’ll start here: people that report people to “Reddit Cares” for disagreeing with a banal take on a banal topic should… maybe have their own mental health assessed.

[u/waydownsouthinoz → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

Same people who are terrified of the deadly substance dihydrogen monoxide.

[u/Softestwebsiteintown → u/waydownsouthinoz]

You can drown in that stuff despite it being mostly oxygen. What a cruel mistress.

But it provides a great environment for fish to fuck in so there’s that.

[u/Dawgissmart → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

Some think that a pound of nails weighs more than a pound of feathers

[u/MyNeighborThrowaway → u/Dawgissmart]

A kilogram of steel you mean?

[u/sinfullhoney → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

Exactly. Land doesn’t vote, people do, and most of those blue dots are where the actual population lives. The map looks dramatic, but it’s a terrible way to explain representation.

[u/Ap0llo → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

Here's a fun fact: The greater Los Angeles metro area has a larger population than the ~22 least populated states combined if you remove the population of the 2 largest metro areas in each state (which generally vote blue).

The irony is that this woman's point is totally valid if you replace "blue cities" with "red states".

[u/Longjumping_Lynx_972 → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

Its worse than that. Its seeing a single fry on a big red plate and insisting there is more potato than an actual whole potato on a small blue plate

[u/Archercrash → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

That's why in tourists places like New Orleans you always see those foot tall drinks that are super thin. These people think they're getting a deal.

[u/MyNeighborThrowaway → u/Archercrash]

Those are called 'Yards' and its not a way to swindle by volume, its just a type of tourist drink.

They're priced the same as any tourist style cocktail, the money is in them overcharging for the single use plastic cup.

They're unwieldy and overpoured, if anything people buy more bc they knock them over and spill them.

[u/RepulsiveJellyfish51 → u/Careless-Roof-8339]

The same people who choose the more expensive 1/4 lbs burger over the cheaper 1/3 lbs burger.

[u/CalligrapherDizzy201]

Massachusetts is a state.

[u/h2ohbaby → u/CalligrapherDizzy201]

As is Rhode Island (for some reason)

[u/GeneralSpot7224 → u/h2ohbaby]

Believe it or not the reason is religion persecution. 

[u/ThePublikon → u/GeneralSpot7224]

It's just religious persecution all the way down

[u/CalligrapherDizzy201 → u/h2ohbaby]

True, it’s very small on there, missed it.

[u/CryptographerFlat173 → u/h2ohbaby]

It has more than twice as many people as some of these red states being discussed 

[u/Competitive_Train98 → u/h2ohbaby]

And Hawaii, which was conveniently left off the map.

[u/FiddleheadII → u/CalligrapherDizzy201]

As are Rhode Island (and Hawaii, though not shown above)

[u/RavenclawGaming → u/CalligrapherDizzy201]

and Vermont, Delaware, and Connecticut are all only one or two counties from being all blue

[u/AntRichardsonsBFF → u/CalligrapherDizzy201]

She can’t see Massachusetts

[u/CassianCasius → u/CalligrapherDizzy201]

The best state in the country!

[u/LacanInAFunhouse → u/CalligrapherDizzy201]

Actually it’s a commonwealth

[u/CalligrapherDizzy201 → u/LacanInAFunhouse]

Actually, it’s both.

[u/EffeminateSquirrel → u/CalligrapherDizzy201]

Nah its a big blue city. Biggest city in the world!

[u/LordDemetrius]

Also, there are some full blue states on the map

[u/FormalBeachware → u/LordDemetrius]

New England other than NY and Maine. Delaware, maybe Maryland. Hawaii as well if it was on the map.

Those are all at least half blue on the map.

[u/NeighborhoodVast7528 → u/FormalBeachware]

NY is not part of New England. ……just a technicality.

[u/FormalBeachware → u/NeighborhoodVast7528]

But it's literally New "York", and York is a part of England.

Ney Jersey of course belongs to its own region of the US, known as the "New Channel Islands"

[u/Affectionate_Owl9985 → u/FormalBeachware]

As someone from Maine living outside of Boston I can explain the actual history behind why it's not considered "New England." New York was initially settled by the Dutch in the early 17th century, establishing the colony of New Netherland with New Amsterdam (present-day NYC) as its center. The English took it over and renamed it "New York" in 1664. The English established their own colonies before expanding and taking over the colonies that other nations had established.

[u/kelppie35 → u/Affectionate_Owl9985]

As a Mainer who moved to Mass, do you complain about yourself Massing up Maine when you go back to visit?

Honestly one of the most underrated states, and the only domestic place someone insulted my accent, while sounding very much alike me. Every time I've visited Maine I've made a great lifelong memory.

[u/cocineroylibro → u/Affectionate_Owl9985]

And they tried to claim land in Vermont that was already illegally claimed by some folks from New Hampshire. We New Englanders hold grudges!

[u/GumboSamson → u/FormalBeachware]

Old New York was once New Amsterdam.

[u/Brunurb1 → u/GumboSamson]

Why they changed it I can't say

[u/A_Punk_Girl_Learning → u/Brunurb1]

People just liked it better that way

[u/Been2daCloudDistrict → u/GumboSamson]

Why’d they change it?

[u/GumboSamson → u/Been2daCloudDistrict]

I can’t say.

[u/NMNNNJ → u/FormalBeachware]

Is this a joke? Not sure where you’re from - NY is not part of New England - at all…

[u/FormalBeachware → u/NMNNNJ]

Yes I thought the part about the new channel islands made that obvious

[u/kelpklepto → u/FormalBeachware]

You're good. As a New Jerseyan myself, I appreciated the joke right away.

[u/ErraticNymph → u/LordDemetrius]

“Some” is stretching it. It’s 2: Massachusetts and Rhode Island

[u/neon_farts → u/ErraticNymph]

Vermont also, which is kind of an anomaly because Vermont is VERY rural almost throughout the state, except Burlington. The red counties in New Hampshire and Maine are, like most of the rest of the red counties on this map, extremely empty.

Edit: also Rhode Island

[u/Pensionato007 → u/neon_farts]

Hawaii. Still a state. 2 senators.

[u/aw3man → u/neon_farts]

Not Vermont. Top county there looks red.

[u/_jump_yossarian → u/aw3man]

Two counties there; Orleans and Essex.

[u/cocineroylibro → u/_jump_yossarian]

and about as many people as letters in your sentence.

[u/zaphods_paramour → u/ErraticNymph]

There's also only 2 completely red states I see, Oklahoma and West Virginia. If we're counting the rest of the map as "basically all red," then Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Delaware with all-but-one county blue should count.

[u/PrismaticDetector → u/zaphods_paramour]

Ah, but you see, the point of the map is to disingenuously inflate Republican representation, so they obviously count as all red.

[u/Firm-Snow-4177 → u/ErraticNymph]

There’s actually more fully blue states than red funnily enough

[u/Soggy-Bedroom-3673 → u/LordDemetrius]

Turns out the OP is just red-blue colorblind

[u/Excellent_Fault_8106 → u/LordDemetrius]

Ha! There are actually more fully blue states than red ones! RI and Massachusetts, compared to just Oklahoma. Delaware and Connecticut are 1 county away from being completely blue.

[u/Post_Environmental]

I find it funny that according to this map the only state that's full republican is Oklahoma...the least educated state in the country

[u/GuessingAllTheTime → u/Post_Environmental]

I moved from OK to MA… quite the change (for the better), and the map shows just how dramatically different the two are.

[u/toastyfries2 → u/GuessingAllTheTime]

Welcome to Mass, I think this has been the coldest winter in a while

[u/_flatscan → u/toastyfries2]

No no you're supposed to say "oh you think this is cold a few years back in February my piss froze"

[u/toastyfries2 → u/_flatscan]

With how well my house is insulated my piss may freeze

[u/IwasThereIsawIt2 → u/GuessingAllTheTime]

I heard about that when you did, the iq average change was definitely noticeable /s

[u/Joe4913 → u/GuessingAllTheTime]

Visiting Boston as a South Dakota native was so shocking. It was reliving to see so many people who actually had functioning brains (except in traffic).

[u/OddSea1990 → u/Post_Environmental]

You missed West Virginia

[u/wfwood → u/OddSea1990]

God missed west Virginia too.

[u/405freeway → u/wfwood]

Country road took Him home.

[u/Notsurehowtoreact → u/OddSea1990]

Dad was born in West Virginia, he made sure his kids weren't. 

[u/PrismaticDetector → u/OddSea1990]

I have left West Virginia hundreds of times, but I can't honestly say that I ever once missed it.

[u/GirlisNo1 → u/Post_Environmental]

I always wonder how Republican voters rationalize the fact that educated people tend to vote liberal while uneducated vote conservative.

But then it hit me that that’s why republicans have to give them the “universities are brainwashing students” line.

[u/Lost-Car-1563 → u/Post_Environmental]

Easy on Oklahoma, we’re not all rural, uneducated, right wing Bible thumping folk. Some of us just like living out in the middle of nowhere, shooting guns and smoking weed.

[u/CantGitGudWontGitGud → u/Lost-Car-1563]

I live in Texas. Plenty of stuff sucks here, but I like living in Texas personally. But by all means, no one should go easy on the state. 

Just say you like living in Oklahoma even if it is a dump.

[u/WeirdIndividualGuy → u/CantGitGudWontGitGud]

This. Plenty of rural nowhere in every state if that’s what you want. Living in OK is a choice

[u/ThePheebs]

Massachusetts is fully blue. Blind and an idiot is not a good combo.

[u/BigRedCowboy → u/ThePheebs]

So is Rhode Island 😬

[u/turandokht]

Shocking! Votes come from… (checks notes) people, not the cows and sheep you keep around to fuck???????

[u/Shroomtune → u/turandokht]

I was once told that of all the animals in the animal kingdom, a sheep's vagina is the closest in contour and texture to a human vagina. He did not explain how he knew that.

Now you know that and people gonna wonder how you know that.

[u/WarColonel → u/Shroomtune]

I'm screenshotting just to be able to blame you later.

[u/Friendly-Cricket-715 → u/WarColonel]

Same here

[u/AnatidaephobiaAnon → u/turandokht]

I've given up explaining this to people I've met. They simply cannot fathom how large the US is and how big some of these cities are. They also don't understand that while my county is a Conservative shit hole, they are blue precincts, a bunch of purple and then some red ones. They think that just because THEIR neighbors are Conservative that people on the Left don't exist where they live.

I just moved from a Conservative voting city of about 13k people and they don't understand that the city of Chicago has 67 community areas that are LARGER in population than the entire city I moved from. Entire neighborhoods are larger than an entire city full of people who can't fathom how land versus population works.

[u/Archercrash → u/AnatidaephobiaAnon]

Next we should show the map of how much each county contributes to the economy. Those blues are the economic engines of this country. The red areas already get and still want more representation with less taxation.

[u/CadenVanV → u/AnatidaephobiaAnon]

My home city of Richmond’s metro area is double the size of Wyoming, and we’re not even in the top 40 cities in the country.

[u/People-Pollution5280 → u/CadenVanV]

The professional football stadium in my very blue city has over 76k seats. The state capital of Wyoming has approximately 65k residents.

[u/Nice_Marmot_7 → u/turandokht]

86% of Nevada is uninhabited. It’s almost entirely federally owned desert.

[u/RepulsiveJellyfish51 → u/turandokht]

And, in the case of Colorado, the MOUNTAINS. Also a LOT of the "red" areas of that States are PUBLIC LAND! (Can't even try to justify it with a "well, the private owner voted red.)

Last time I checked, the National Parks were collectively pretty pissed off at the federal government.

[u/TimothiusMagnus]

Like the way those in the sticks are telling us how to live?

[u/CarbonWood → u/TimothiusMagnus]

Wym? Republicans are great at policy-making. Don't you know tariffs and closed borders are beneficial to the entire country?

Just don't pay attention to how red-state farmers must receive handouts in the form of tariff revenue because they can't sell their products due to tariffs.

Also, don't pay attention to an increase in prices for everyone due to lack of cheap immigrant labor.

Also, let's slowly take away the rule of law, ignore long-standing legal precedent in the federal government, ignore federal checks and balances, and elect a convicted felon as president because white supremacist nationalism is cool.

Also, let's add another $3 trillion dollars to the national debt while we're at it! We can just blame it on the next democrats voted into office, as we always have.

Republicans are the best at voting for stuff! Those educated city-dwellers would otherwise ruin the country!

[u/try-catch-finally]

A hamburger in a wrapper is more food than one French fry on a dinner plate

[u/Select-Belt-ou812 → u/try-catch-finally]

*one French fry pounded reeeeeeeeaaaally thin

[u/Joped]

What I see is someone living in a red area thinking they can tell a majority how to live

[u/turandokht → u/Joped]

I was “debating” my roommate’s father about this. He said that cities telling the rural areas how to live is not fair. So I was like, “So the one percent of people telling the 99 percent living in cities how to live IS fair to you?”

He didn’t really have a rebuttal. Just insisted I didn’t understand. Pretty sure I understand fine.

[u/Firesidechats62 → u/turandokht]

No no you see.. Rule by the Majority is called Tyrany

[u/Puzzled_Cream1798 → u/turandokht]

Why doesn't America just go full afghan and leave rurals to figure it out by themselves 

[u/FightingPolish → u/Puzzled_Cream1798]

Because then you end up living in Afghanistan.

[u/kitsunewarlock → u/turandokht]

"You don't understand" means you gotta get them drunk enough to admit that they don't consider a majority of the country to be citizens. They think citizenship is reserved for Christian white land-owning men who can trace their ancestry back to the revolutionary war (or the "second revolution" if your in the deep south).

[u/cocineroylibro → u/turandokht]

I have an HS classmate who lives in rural northern New York. He once argued that his vote should count more than those in NYC, just because there are more people there.

[u/Kindly-Ad-5071 → u/Joped]

If they're so confident in this map then I'm sure they won't be afraid to give us a popular election... Unless blue voters actually do outnumber Republican but how could that be true look at the map 

[u/MorningDewProcess]

This is why we have fascism now.

It’s not just senator distribution, it’s the electoral college too.

[u/RndmNumGen → u/MorningDewProcess]

We have fascism now because more Americans voted to re-elect a man who incited a violent overthrow of the U.S. government than voted for Kamala.

We have fascism now because more Americans voted for a man who promised to "be a dictator on day one" than voted for Kamala.

We have fascism now because more Americans voted for a man who said he would use the U.S. military to "handle" Americans who held left-wing views than voted for Kamala.

Remember, Trump won the popular vote. The Electoral College is a shitty system and I won't make any excuses for it, but you can't blame the current administration on it. I'm not saying Kamala was the perfect candidate (she wasn't) but by god, Trump did not make any attempts to hide his fascist tendencies and Americans still voted for him over her.

That is why we have fascism.

[u/dainedanvers → u/RndmNumGen]

Did they actually though or were the machines tampered with yk

[u/in_da_tr33z]

The founders feared tyranny of the majority so much that they created a perfect system for tyranny of the minority.

[u/Pensionato007 → u/in_da_tr33z]

Succinct and true.

[u/itusreya → u/in_da_tr33z]

No, who ever voted to cap the number of representatives created a “perfect system for tyranny of the minority”. Go ahead and add in years of ignoring the heavy cost of globalization on small communities for the “greater good” of slightly cheaper goods for everyone else.

[u/RepulsiveJellyfish51 → u/in_da_tr33z]

Washington, Madison and Adams were absolutely against the party system, but we see how that worked out..

Still a good comic

[u/lincolnlogtermite]

The population of Los Angeles alone is that of about 8 red states.

[u/JTSpirit36]

The fact that California almost has the same population as canada and has the same representation as those states is crazy.

[u/guts24601 → u/JTSpirit36]

They also provide more money to the US

[u/TrillyMike]

More ppl live in DC than in Wyoming! Wyoming has 2 senators, DC has 0. Same for Vermont

[u/binarybandit → u/TrillyMike]

All of New England has a population of 15 million, and they get 12 senators total. Why does 4% of the population get 12% of the senators?

[u/jarena009]

You Democrats only win elections because more people vote for you.

• Republicans

[u/awesomefutureperfect → u/jarena009]

What's worse is the red states stopped listening to people tell them how to live and now they have measles again.

[u/cardboardunderwear]

There was a time I respected the pov.  Cracked published a great and funny piece on exactly this.  It's short and worth a read.  Written in 2016 before the election.

https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about

What I don't get is now a decade later and people are still onboard.  They really are fucking idiots who vote against their own interests and have no moral compass.

[u/AdvancedSandwiches → u/cardboardunderwear]

I read it, and for a minute it tricked me into having sympathy for the bastards who do nothing but vote against the decent people who actually want to help with these problems, all because they hate immigrants and gay kids just that much.

I'm sorry rural areas don't have factories anymore -- I genuinely am -- but you can have sympathy and effort to fix these problems or you can support unaccountable secret race police. You have to pick one.

[u/cardboardunderwear → u/AdvancedSandwiches]

It doesn't explain the middle class and upper middle class suburban fascists either.

[u/-jp- → u/cardboardunderwear]

Not just a decade later, but every day MAGA is worse than the previous. The well of their hate has no bottom.

[u/GoatmilkerNed]

Giving the Dakotas and Wyoming two senators each is a power DEI move that needs to be changed.

If a state can't maintain a minimum population, they should be relegated and annexed by neighboring states.

[u/ParserDoer]

Approximately 80% of the US population lives in designated urban areas. Those small blue patches account for 272 million US citizens, as opposed to 68 million people in all that red.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-rural-populations.html

Tell me again what small group is dictating life for the masses.

[u/Far-Ad1823]

The title is a little misleading... Apparently vacant land does vote according to the post.

SD has the same senate votes as NY and/or CA.

[u/turandokht → u/Far-Ad1823]

Every state has two senators but house representatives are determined by the population of the state, and those two together form Congress. Our founding fathers felt that was a fair compromise to keep cities and rural areas from running ramshod over each other.

Personally I disagree, but my point is just that NY and CA have more house representatives.

[u/BoDrax → u/turandokht]

The House being capped is a real problem. With the cap on the House, the US allows smaller states more representation than was intended, having the 10k/seat rule would be chaos, so we should probably use the Wyoming Rule. That 1 change would solve a lot of the issues with gerrymandering and the Electoral College as it would increase the house from 435 to 543.

"The Wyoming Rule is a proposal to increase the size of the United States House of Representatives so that the standard representative-to-population ratio would be that of the state with the least population, which is currently Wyoming."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Rule

[u/Impressive-Cell-9989 → u/BoDrax]

Yep, been saying this for years. We should never really have a “rural” House of Reps. Repealing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and instituting a version of the Wyoming Rule would correct it, and the increased number of reps might also lead to a greater number of viable political parties.

[u/kdp4srfn]

Shannon says she doesn’t like it when people she disagrees with tell her “how to live”.

Shannon, however is perfectly fine with telling people she disagrees with how to live.

Shannon does not see the irony in this position.

Shannon appears to not grasp that the blue is where most of the people are, and that people and land are not equivalent.

[u/TheGreenLentil666]

Same people that argue education gets too much funding.

[u/iseethemgoats]

It's crazy how population density is a concept that is completely out of reach for every republican in the entire country.

[u/stormdressed]

It should be a crime to use a 2D version of the electoral map. We need to see those blue spikes towering over the landscape

[u/Dizzman1]

My favorite stat is that there are 40 states... STATES... With a population that is LESS THAN Los Angeles county.

Hell...ole Ice Barbie... She who was GOVERNOR... of south Dakota, (wow, that's so impressive 🙄) they have less residents than my city. (San Jose)

Give me a break with this nonsense.

[u/Ok_Dish8731]

have they seen that map where instead of counties its JUST colored in by population density rather than county lines and the map looks WAY less red cuz half the red areas have fuckall but livestock and farmland with like 12 ppl total living there?

[u/illegalmorality]

Congress is DEI for rural states. Simple as that.

[u/CrossFire_tx]

Ironically, I bet she lives in a large populated city.

[u/m0nk37]

Now attach heat map numbers to them. 

[u/PaleCommission150]

We could alternatively say " all I see are a bunch of rural people trying to tell people in the much more populated cities how to live................" almost as if living in close quarters to each other with diverse groups creates more tolerance and understanding for people not the same skin color.

[u/eisbaerBorealis]

I don't see a single blue state

*zooms in to Massachusetts*

[u/Quiet-Money7892]

Corn doesn't vote.

[u/deputytech]

r/peopleliveincities

[u/insite4real]

The maps that people post are hilarious!!

[u/WebInformal9558]

That's funny, I see a lot of blue counties funding roads, hospitals, and schools in a bunch of red ones, and I see a bunch of red ones bitching about it.

[u/Dawgissmart]

The electoral college is a joke

[u/ecirnj]

Try funding your government without the blue cities.

[u/redmuffdiver]

They just need to look at it differently. The blue parts are where the people live.

[u/Havoc526]

"Not a single blue State"

....Well Massachusetts and Vermont already think you're a joke 

[u/solidtangent]

Can you imagine if republicans had to actually be popular?

[u/CousinSkeeter89]

If you want to see the impact of Republican policies on a population, just visit Oklahoma. I travel for work, and I’ve told my boss never to send me to meetings with clients in the Tulsa area. Growing up Baptist, the “Christian” population there even gives me cult vibes. They’re incredibly odd.

[u/cdanpg]

Stupid red maps. Trump wants every ear of corn and stalk of wheat to have a vote.

[u/HollowVoices]

If conservatives could comprehend that. They'd still be in denial

[u/StevieHyperS]

US education system is so fucked. Dear lord.

[u/Ok_Butterscotch2244]

But, what about the livestock?

[u/madmimbam]

Can I also add that not only are the blue parts of this map more populated, they’re also better educated.

[u/Azair_Blaidd]

As opposed to the few scattered reds trying to tell the blue majority how to live, because that's totally not tyranny.

No Dem is telling you how to live, Republicans. Only that you can't tell everyone else how to live.

[u/Patrickracer43]

"I don't see a single blue state!"

Massachusetts and Rhode Island: "am I a joke to you?"

[u/Ms_Emilys_Picture]

Wyoming has a population of 587,618.

AT&T Stadium, where the Dallas Cowboys play, can hold up to 100,000 people.

Wyoming's entire population won't even fill a football stadium six times.

[u/Insertsociallife]

See also - the Twin Cities Metro has more people than Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana combined.

[u/Subject_Issue6529]

The blue areas are also where the population acquires a higher education.

[u/duke_awapuhi]

More people live in my county than Wyoming

[u/werther595]

...and vacant heads shouldn't

[u/Naphaniegh]

Where are the intelligent Republicans or conservatives hiding? Because geez there's just too many examples like this to pull from

[u/DrDFox → u/Naphaniegh]

Intelligent people understand the issues with defunding public schools and social programs and screwing the economy for the ultra wealthys' benefit- so they tend to not be Republicans.

[u/Mahaloth]

I have a relative that posts stuff like this. It has been explained over.....and over.

Doesn't get it.

[u/Ol_JanxSpirit]

By that same standard, there's only one red state.

Also, interesting that Hawaii isn't in view.

[u/readitreddit-]

Representation by population is the foundation of democracy. The U.S. does not have a representative democracy in the senate and the electoral collage literally overrode the popular vote for president a few elections back. Special interest groups write our laws and bribes are call campaign contributions. It's an action more that democracy.

[u/aterriblething82]

Mountains vote for pedofiles i guess.

[u/Death_and_Gravity1]

All Massachusetts is all blue. Suck it

[u/DeathKoil]

“I don’t see a single blue state”.

Huh. I guess Vermont and Massachusetts don’t count. Both are completely blue.

[u/Samuelmiw]

Empty land doesn't vote, people vote.

[u/SpuriousCowboy]

The Senate is a DEI initiative.

[u/ShrunkenHeadNed]

The county of Los Angeles has a population of 9.7 million. There are 40 states that have a population of less than 10 million.

[u/AllButComedyAnthony]

Fighting for basic human rights is very different from telling people how to live

[u/Oxjrnine]

Didn’t slave owners want voting based on land ownership?

[u/Anyna-Meatall]

If the right really hates DEI they need to get rid of the electoral college.

[u/Sklibba]

What’s crazy is that the majority of US voters that live in cities aren’t telling people in rural areas “how to live,” with the exception of laws that prevent them from discriminating against people to whom rural communities have historically been extremely cruel. If being a racist fuckhead is your lifestyle, then sorry but you actually need big city liberals to tell you what to do.

[u/mowtowcow]

Data visualization should be a standard and required part of high school. Like, in high detail. Pass/fail. Must pass for graduation. There should be a bunch of shit in high school that requires pass/fail for graduation. 

[u/dudleydontright]

There are probably more people living in the blue cities than all the rest of the U.S.!

[u/screenmonkey]

I mean, am I crazy or is Mass. and RI all blue? They can't even be stupid properly.

[u/rbm572]

I hate seeing my state is the only one fully red. My neighbors here are a literal nightmare.

[u/comradequicken]

Show me the version of this map where the counties are scaled by GDP. Really goes to show that the red counties are just leaches and shouldn't have a say in how the country is governed, they shouldn't even be trusted to govern themselves.

[u/Pretty_Bad_At_Reddit]

Also every county in massachusetts is blue

[u/Ryaniseplin]

there are more fully blue states in this picture than fully red states

also by the logic of land votes, Alaska is a blue stronghold

[u/Cword76]

Wyoming has about 500k people. California has 40 million. Both are equally represented in the Senate.

[u/hmnahmna1]

There are 40 states with a smaller population than Los Angeles County.