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96. Your sense of humor is interesting.

But to get back to facts. Apparently you think that the bans on travel to North Carolina enacted by California and other states and cities are going to hurt them more than they hurt North Carolina. Whatever.

The reality is that four of the six largest state governments (CA, NY, WA and IL) are signatories to the Interstate compact. They have lots of employees and large travel budgets. And there are several states that are among those that have the highest tourism dollars and are popular destinations for conferences that haven't signed the compact including Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. Now maybe they'll all stop sending their employees to CA, NY, Hawaii, Massachusetts and the like, although I doubt those states will feel much of a pinch.

And the point, which apparently sailed past you, was to do something that turns a spotlight on the issue of disproportionate representation in the electoral college system, and to do so without engendering the ridicule that would accompany a silly threat by California to secede -- a threat that it is virtually impossible to believe California could even get a majority of its citizens to support.