Almost 40 percent of South Dakotans say Noem shooting dog was justified

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Almost 40 percent of South Dakotans say Noem shooting dog was justified
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I was curious just how many people actually live in South Dakota, just so that I could have a point of reference for the 37.8% statistic. Basically, it's roughly the same amount of people as the population of New Orleans or half the population of Washington DC that agree with her. What an empty state.

And they're not even the least populated state at about 900k

That title goes to Wyoming with about 580k people

That entire fucking regions needs to be merged itno onw big fuckoff state.

They'd lose electoral college power then.

Exactly

Splitting up California, would work too. But really, we need to finish the Interstate Popular Vote Compact.

Splitting up California would only prove to weaken the region as a whole. Sure you may gain a couple senators and college votes but theres no guarantee that the resulting states would be economically solvent. You could just end up with a bunch of Mississippi type states, also a good chunk of California is quite conservative.

Combining the Northern states has far clearer advantages both politically and economically. Namely it would allow a better spread of taxes.

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