Well, I can understand the feeling, but it’s not true. Many of the states in between have a better ratio of relatively sensible people to fruitcakes than it looks like, but the fruitcakes have gerrymandered voting districts pretty severely. Which is a self reinforcing issue.
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Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 days agoMaybe, but even that needs narrowing down. An American friend of mine says that the two coasts are relatively sensible and everyone in the states inbetween are utter fruitcakes.
jmill@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Has your friend heard of Florida? And some of the northern states in-between are relatively sensible too - Minnesota for example.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I think they’re in denial about Florida.
Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Denial is the standard state of mind for Florida.