r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/King-Snorky Georgia 1d ago

EVERY STATE IS A PURPLE STATE. The United States as a country is as fucked as it is right now due in large part to our archaic FPTP Electoral College system, which leaves a massive portion of people living in a state that ultimately gives away all its electoral votes to the other candidate.

  • Kamala actually got more votes from people in states she lost than from states she won in 2024. ~52% (~38.9 million) of her ~75 million votes came from so called "red states/districts", making up about 38% of those states' total votes.
  • A third (~26.4 million) of Trump's 77.3 votes came from so-called "blue states/districts", also comprising about 40% of those states total votes.

So, let's take the ridiculous scenario where the States/districts that went to Trump in 2024 all seceded, taking all their current residents and forming a new Confederate States of America v2.0. The election results tell us that around 40% of people in each country, 65 million people in total, would want to move to the other country.

Source: Did the math myself. Nebraska of course would find itself in an interesting East/West Berlin situation in the area surrounding Omaha.

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u/Senior-Albatross New Mexico 20h ago

That's the real issue with any proposed geographic division.