Your pie idea is really interesting! I’ve been thinking about this lately too, and I wonder if forcing cities to become their own states by way of rural secession would work (it would be easiest to do when the city already lies near the coast or state border.)
For instance, I live in Pa and Philly really messes everything up. Well they’ll never split with Pa on their own because they’re not the ones being screwed over while paying exorbitant taxes to dictator Wolf. It would be imperative on the rest of the state to say enough is enough.
I’m not sure how the electoral vote issue would work in this idea- maybe split the original vote total between the new states?
I just feel like if Democrats want to eventually add states anyway, then we may as well beat them to it and create new conservative states with strict state constitutions that would shut down leftist policies leaking in (like build universal concealed carry into the state constitution so it’s much more difficult for someone to eventually try to impose gun control).
Districts are already geographically nightmarish; trying to add rural swaths to urban districts would make things even more contrived (and IMO give lie to the whole system). I don't necessarily have a better answer, except perhaps several layers of mass disenfranchisement based on government dependency and/or negative societal contribution, which would largely nullify urban centers anyway.
Your pie idea is really interesting! I’ve been thinking about this lately too, and I wonder if forcing cities to become their own states by way of rural secession would work (it would be easiest to do when the city already lies near the coast or state border.) For instance, I live in Pa and Philly really messes everything up. Well they’ll never split with Pa on their own because they’re not the ones being screwed over while paying exorbitant taxes to dictator Wolf. It would be imperative on the rest of the state to say enough is enough. I’m not sure how the electoral vote issue would work in this idea- maybe split the original vote total between the new states? I just feel like if Democrats want to eventually add states anyway, then we may as well beat them to it and create new conservative states with strict state constitutions that would shut down leftist policies leaking in (like build universal concealed carry into the state constitution so it’s much more difficult for someone to eventually try to impose gun control).
Districts are already geographically nightmarish; trying to add rural swaths to urban districts would make things even more contrived (and IMO give lie to the whole system). I don't necessarily have a better answer, except perhaps several layers of mass disenfranchisement based on government dependency and/or negative societal contribution, which would largely nullify urban centers anyway.