• Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2

  • United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2

  • Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)

  • Glasgow urban area population: 632,350 (2020)

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[+] 73 points 2 years ago (63 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Since COVID, Migration from large, expensive coastal cities to sparsely populated rural states is one of the greatest opportunity to permanently flip representation. Idaho was the largest percentage population gainer in the US since COVID and almost all of it coming from CA, OR, WA. Were this to continue you'd probably be looking at a blue state in an election cycle or two. I think this is one of the reasons, long with insane sadism, that Rs are trying to push such radical agendas t state levels--to scare moderates and progressives from moving there. Wyoming could be permablue with one year of concentrated migration.

    Even states like Texas, thought of as Red stronghold are not that disproportionately voted Red; 2020 was a difference of 600k votes. 100k net Californians(only CA!) were moving to Texas a year during the pandemic, if you add in other states we might actually see it flip in a few cycles, though the radical agenda being pushed is going to kill those numbers perhaps. Very curious to see 2024 shifts.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Spent ALL day driving rural Mississippi and Alamba and has the same thoughts about WFH. I'm happy where I'm at, but what if I wanted to move or retire to one of the picturesque small towns in Alabama? How many people have done exactly that?

    Same reason I may take my wife back to the Philippines when we retire. Money spends different when an apartment is $150/mo. and a loaf of bread is $.15.

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    "In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance. In America, 100 years is a long time."

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Those shit bags get 2 senators....

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Each 1 Wyoming voter is worth about 67 Californians in the senate due to the fact that California has about 67 times the population but still only 2 senators.

    38,940,231 Californians / 576,851 Wyomingites = ~67.5 ratio

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Each Wyoming is worth one California in the Senate due to the fact that California and Wyoming are both single states. The messed up part is the missing like 140 representatives that should exist to balance population to representative for each state.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yes. It's especially annoying when people who live in places like wyoming act like they're "real americans". More people live in cities! Brooklyn, NY alone has ~2.7 million people.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Straight Border Syndrome.

    The straighter a places borders are, the less likely it is that there's anything there worth fighting over, and the more likely that the lines were drawn thousands of miles away by people who'd never even been there.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    that's because it doesn't exist

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No no, Ohio is the one that doesn't exist

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I misread it as "less popular than Glasgow."

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
    • Australia's Northern Territory area: 1.42m km2

    • Australia's Northern Territory population: 246,500 (2020)

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are 5 times as many trans people in America as there are whyomingans.

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