All people are equal. All states are not.
Is it accurate to describe the federal funding California gets as California’s own money? Would the U.S. be poorer and weaker without California? Does California’s economy prop up red states? Is California one of the states least reliant on the federal government?
The short answer to all these questions is yes. But it’s pretty hard to win a debate with just one data point.
The U.S. flag features 50 stars of equal size, one for each state. In reality, states are so unequal that just nine of them comprise about 51% of the United States’ population.
My fellow Californians, The results are in. A native-born Californian woman of color, Kamala Harris, has been chosen to serve as the next vice president “Californians have four years to prepare for independence”
Happy California Independence Day, Californians! And happy (?) election day as well. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably pretty anxious about what’s going to happen ““We are, simply, Californians””
One of the great myths about the United States is that it’s a democracy where all Americans have an equal say. In fact, Californians have less “Bearly Represented: How the U.S. Constitution makes Californians second-class voters”
Tell me if you’ve heard this story before: thanks to sky-high housing costs, over-taxation, and/or failed liberal policies, Californians, especially the middle class, are fleeing “The Great Migration Myth”
Smaller states overrepresented in Congress tend to lean conservative and Republican and, as big blue states like California grow, the power of smaller counterparts actually increases “LA Weekly: Backers of California Secession Say State’s Senate Representation Is Dire”
The area of each state on this map shows how much representation in the U.S. Senate the average resident gets. For example, the average Wyomingite “Representation in the U.S. Senate (Map)”
