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Half of US population...
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:53 am
by _subgenius
...lives in just 9 States.
Just a bit of information to ponder for popular vote imbeciles.
https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of ... tes-2016-6
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:27 am
by _Kevin Graham
Popular vote imbeciles like Donald Trump?
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:42 am
by _Kittens_and_Jesus
Individual freedom trumped by rural collectivists...
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:15 pm
by _Brackite
We have been told that we have the Electoral College to give small States a voice. But several small States such as Hawaii, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont did not go with the 2016 popular vote loser.
Link
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 10:30 pm
by _DoubtingThomas
subgenius wrote:...lives in just 9 States.
Just a bit of information to ponder for popular vote imbeciles.
So give the village idiots an unfair advantage?
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:04 am
by _canpakes
DoubtingThomas wrote:subgenius wrote:...lives in just 9 States.
Just a bit of information to ponder for popular vote imbeciles.
So give the village idiots an unfair advantage?
In this case, the village idiot just might be the fellow who started this thread. Not only is no solution proposed to whatever problem he hints at, but his 'observation' fails to consider any condition that affects his statistic. Here's a simple example:
The United States government owns 47 percent of all land in the West. In some states, including Oregon, Utah and Nevada, the majority of land is owned by the federal government. In Nevada, the Feds own around 86% of the land.
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:08 am
by _MeDotOrg
Alaska, which is 663,000 square miles, has fewer people than San Francisco, which is 49 square miles.
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:16 am
by _huckelberry
Canpakes, I am not sure what direction you are pointing with the map of federal land. Are you reminding us of the degree to which the United States has always been socialist? Is it this socialism which has kept us so miserably poor compared to say Argentina?
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 2:07 am
by _DoubtingThomas
canpakes wrote:
The United States government owns 47 percent of all land in the West. In some states, including Oregon, Utah and Nevada, the majority of land is owned by the federal government. In Nevada, the Feds own around 86% of the land.
Interesting!
Re: Half of US population...
Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:48 am
by _moksha
canpakes wrote:The United States government owns 47 percent of all land in the West.
Seems to correspond to mountainous areas such as the Appalachians, the Rockies, and the Cascades, as well as deserts such as the Great Basin, the Mojave, and the Sonoran. Trump Secretary of the Interior Zinke, might be able to sell off Yellowstone if the Republicans retain control of Congress after the 2018 elections.