Honestly, I get it. I totally disagree with their opinions, but living in a state where you know the votes of you and your community are effectively meaningless due to a distant, overwhelming majority sucks.
That being said…this isn’t how states should work. Independent administration for urban and rural areas would amplify the existing division in our country, which has already become a glaring problem in recent years.
Welcome to blue people living in Texas
why wouldn’t they just become their own state? did they forget that that’s allowed?
Establishing a new state is very hard. Attempts to do so have been unsuccessful many times before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_partition_proposals_in_the_United_StatesIt doesn’t help that this is not a large and popular movement. I have attended schools with more students than the resident populations of some of these counties. This is purely political theater by a relatively small group of people.
