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TIL that Wyoming is larger than the United Kingdom in area but less populous than Glasgow

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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And they get 2 senators and 3 electoral votes....sigh....
- Yes, as intended.
  
  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.
- What's your problem with that?
  
  Disproportionate representation can be kind of a bummer for the under represented folks. Get rid of the senate and remove the cap on the house!
  
  Puerto Rico is six times as populous and gets none
  
  My problem is that my vote has far less weight than someone in that state. Wasn’t that implied?
  
  Square miles of farmland shouldn’t have votes, people should.
  
  Their vote is worth it more than others states. I don't how Americans can accept that.
"In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance. In America, 100 years is a long time."
- Speaking as someone who lives in tiny Denmark in a city that was founded in the late 700s, that's very accurate 😄
- I remember seeing something a while back that US archaeologists don't like Europeans on their dig sites, because the Europeans just bulldoze through anything less than a few hundred years old because the interesting stuff is way under it, where the US ones are like "noo, our heritage!"
  
  No European archeologist would do that. Maybe 19th century ones, like Schliemann, who was so anxious to find the Troy of legend that he plowed through all layers above it.
  
  But modern archeologists would absolutely not do such a thing.
Those shit bags get 2 senators....
- 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
  
  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.
- Same as every other state dingus. That's why we have the house of representatives.
  
  You're right, and the dingus needs a civics lesson.
  
  But as you're probably aware, the House has its issues with being artificially limited too.
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.
- Every person who usually resides in America is a real American
  
  Sure, but the attitude I was trying to describe is "those city folk aren't real Americans. Only country folk and maybe suburbanites are!"
  
  I failed to include the exclusiveness in my previous post
- They're real Americans, just not...realer Americans than city dwellers.
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.
- That's most of the US/Canada border. That little tick where Minnesota sticks up into Canada is because a treaty was made with a map that didn't actually show the accurate geography there.
that's because it doesn't exist
- No no, Ohio is the one that doesn't exist
  
  As someone who's in Ohio... I wish this was true. 😭
  
  Ohio gozaimasu
I misread it as "less popular than Glasgow."
- That's undoubtedly true too, though 😁
  
  Yellowstone?
Australia's Northern Territory area: 1.42m km2

Australia's Northern Territory population: 246,500 (2020)
- Greenland area: 2,166,086 km2
  
  Greenland population: 56,583 (2022 estimate)
  
  Nice. I guess Antarctica's next.
There are 5 times as many trans people in America as there are whyomingans.
- Would probably be 8 or 9 times as many if poor people in Wyoming could afford to move and no trans people felt the need to pretend to be cis for safety too.
Why did I think there was two million people in Wyoming, what the hell happened?
- We don't talk about The Incident.
  
  Did it involve Bruno in any way?
- Maybe you had it confused with the neighboring state Nebraska? 🤷
  
  I was confused, certainly, I'm not sure how.
See? Naebdy gies a shite

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