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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

But if you did that how would you keep podunk southern states like Arkansas in charge? that is the point of the EC, the US's whole political history is a struggle between south and north, still is, the North has the money, the population, the industry, the south has the Government and the trailer parks, that's the balance

While we're on the subject the US isnt a democracy and never has been, it's a republic, two wholly different things

It's "podunk" because you don't live there. Let someone say that about East Vancouver and you'd be indignant.