How about some here throttle back the insults?

[Cirsium]

30. Of course

It is bad enough that we are divided up by these arbitrary geographic boundaries into "states," and that it gives the right wing a built in political advantage. But for Democrats here to buy into that nonsense and group people according to which side of some boundary they live is really inexcusable.

If it were not for the anti-democratic electoral college and Senate configuration, we would not even be talking about states tonight.

There are more Democrats in Texas (5,259,126 ) than there are in Oregon (1,340,383), or in Connecticut (1,080,831), or in Hawaii (366,130), or in Vermont (242,820). That is based on the votes or Biden in 2020.

You can add Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts. Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, ad Washington to that list. There were more Biden voters i Texas in 2020 than there was in any of those "blue" states.

California - population 38,965,193 - 2 seats in the Senate.

Wyoming - population 584,057 - 2 seats in the Senate.

Wyoming - population 584,057 - 2 seats in the Senate.

District of Columbia - population 678,972 - 0 seats in the Senate.

Puerto Rico - population 3,205,691 - 0 seats in the Senate.

Voter suppression; slavery era anti-democratic systems; dark money; monopolization of the media. Lots of things to blame. Lots of things to fight for.