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zipplewrath

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3. It's going to get worse

Reply to Goodheart (Reply #2)

Mon May 13, 2019, 08:23 AM

May 2019

By 2040 it is projected that 70% of the country will live in just 15 states. The result will be that 30% of the country will control 70% of the senate. Not sure a government can long function with such an arrangement.

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