cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24857135
Okay now I would like Dallas County to secede from Texas because Texas has an awful state government. Our top prosecutor is literally a criminal.
Texas actually has the right to divide itself into five states. If it had done so earlier, Gore and Hillary would have won the electoral college because at least one of those states would be blue.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/more-150-years-texas-has-had-power-secede-itself-180962354/
Maybe Illinois should give them what they want and stop any and all state or federal funding of the region until they beg to be let back in. I’m feeling a little vindictive today.
Keep taxing them, too, since they haven’t paid for the land.
Federal funding wouldn’t stop. But shared state tax revenue from Chicago would
The federal funding is provided to the state of Illinois, so the counties need the state treasury to provide federal funding to them.
If they were granted secession by the federal Congress they would be a state and get federal funding. That’s the only way they’d leave.
They try this bullshit every few years despite being propped up by taxes from the populated northeastern corner of the state.
They’re mad because Chicago having a higher population controls the vote and makes the state vote blue. But electoral college votes are by population so even if they were two states Chicago would still cancel them out anyway yeah?
There’s a minimum of 3 electoral votes per state even if they are under the population required for it. They will end up stealing those votes from other, more populous, states.
The electoral college is so fucked up. It needs to be abolished, but with the way things are going I can’t see that ever happening, anymore.
In the South Illinois hypothetical the bigger issue is the extra Senate seats more then the 3 electoral votes.
Really we need to abolish the current upper limit on the house and set it to a population marker again. If we did, the 100 electoral votes the Senate counts for would be an afterthought, because populous states like Cali (presuming something like 1 rep per 100k population.) would have hundreds of reps each.
Ways repubs are trying to keep control of the senate…
