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California Democrats Look to Redraw House Map Amid Texas Redistricting War (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The same way every delegation in the UN gets a vote, even though the UN contains both China and the Vatican.

The states were intended to be states - fairly independent political entities which shared resources to maintain a military and facilitate trade.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those states are not independent. They depend on the taxes from CA to subsidize them.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I'm just explaining the historical path we took.