Don't consign us here in Mississippi, voting in every election, to not be represented in a democratic society. It's hard enough living here without getting dogpiled by external people who never visit and think that just because our "representatives" are a certain way that everyone here is like them, instead of the messier reality that power structures here are misaligned with the actual population's collective will.

> Let Mississippi be Mississippi with Texas and Florida, let California find its own way with New York and Washington.

These places aren't homogeneous in their political tastes.

I live in a northeast blue state, but there are rural pockets that are still heavily MAGA. And I'm sure Mississippi has liberal enclaves.

That being said, I don't know what the "solution" to this problem is.

> we are just too divided

I challenge this.

I think the TV media, social media, and politicians like to make us feel like we are very divided because that's what gets "the base" to give a shit.

But if you throw away all of the garbage on TV and the garbage online, how divided are we? Really?

I think if you strip away the distractions, the people in conservative Florida have a lot more in common with people in liberal NY than one might assume.

E pluribus duam?

It's a tempting thought but play it out. Now you live next to a belligerent fascist theocracy with nukes who likes to invade foreign countries and aspires to control the entire western hemisphere from Canada to Chile. How does that end?

You're confusing neo-feudalist oligarchical propaganda with the will of the people.