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Culturally it is basically a separate state. Everyone not in the Chicago area is basically a rounding error far as state government cares (Chicago has all the

Culturally it is basically a separate state. Everyone not in the Chicago area is basically a rounding error far as state government cares (Chicago has all the money so of course the government panders more to them, that's just how things work, no surprise there) though Chicago will complain right back about "those hicks downstate" (or something like that) preventing them from doing what they want. If it were up to me we'd have like 100+ states so that people don't have to deal with sharing a state with and potentially get told what to do by some jerks that they have nothing in common with. I usually pick NY as my poster child example but IL works too. Edit: Down-voting me won't make Chicago and downstate reconcile their differences.

codyb 7y ago
That’d reduce rural voting strength from ridiculously outsized to a bit less outsized making influencing our politicians a lot more expensive. It’d be great for the vast majority of Americans but is probably unlikely to happen because the people spending the most money will convince the primarily poor and less well educated rural populace that they’ll be giving up their votes and it’ll diminish their power despite an almost universal lack of satisfaction with our Congress among Americans of all shades and stripes.