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People who have never been to L.A. really have no idea how insanely huge it is. Driving to my apartment from the start of city (before you even get to L.A. county) and having the city just keep going and going and going for two hours and not because of traffic jams is something you have to experience to truly understand.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately no because in 1929 the House of Representatives got capped at 435. For example, a Congressman from California represented ~~494,709 people while one from New Hampshire represented 3,448 people in the year 2020.~~ Those must have been state congress numbers or something, idk, real numbers would be 750k cali and 700k NH, probably better examples out there for large differences.

Edit: these numbers are not for federal congressmen, clearly. Correction made.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

NH only has 2 congresspeople, so one per 700,000

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I must have used a bad source, might have been state congress numbers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe time for a Port of Oakland tea party but with... Oh wait.. we don't need imports from the rest of the country and should just stop paying taxes without representation or something

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

I'm not an advocate of secession under normal circuimstances, what with the looming threat of WWIII if ever the power scale tipped against the USA, but it's especially a bad idea when California is covered in fire.