13 Oregon counties vote to secede and join Idaho
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I'm sure that there is a good answer to this question but in terms of legal difficulty wouldn't it be just as troublesome for them to instead form their own state? They are talking about a huge swath of territory anyway.
BTW, I believe there is a better solution to all of this. Bring the Electoral College system to the state level. That will stop the blue egalitarian collectivist types from destroying the rest of the state and they will still have the economic power of scales of economy for being a city center.
It avoids a political difficulty associated with creating a state which is 2 senators. When it comes to making DC a state, that's a feature for Democrats. Presumably, 2 more conservative senators (from West Idaho) would make them unhappy. By shifting counties, you in theory perturb the power state less. Though, as I speculated above, with every +1 counting for so much these days, I'm sure Washington would be full of opinions.
Good argument, I wish we would go back to when it was the legislature of the state that selected senators but without the issues that they had before it became a public election process.
If you combine that with a state level Electoral College system we would have a totally different country at this point.
Yeah I agree that the Senate was supposed to be a different body; not just a House with different makeup. It was supposed to be kind of a house of lords but without the nobility. It would be people of the political class to sort of tamp down populism. That's a good idea; I don't know why they undid it.
Yeah it would bring us more in line with being a republic and not a democracy which is what we are supposed to be in the first place.