Pick a state whose laws, people, and culture you view as being backward, ignorant, or otherwise undesirable. Let’s oversimplify and call it a bad state. The bad

Pick a state whose laws, people, and culture you view as being backward, ignorant, or otherwise undesirable. Let’s oversimplify and call it a bad state. The bad state also has some influence over the federal government, exercise of its power, and therefore control of good states. Should Mississippi rule over California? Should New York rule over Texas? Most will reject at least one of these propositions. Thus, the United States are a system of divided powers.