ext_17567 ([identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mmcirvin 2006-09-30 03:09 pm (UTC)

Re: hey Matt

...Of course, the reason why they don't work so well in the US has more to do with geography than anything else: European countries are smaller and have a much more urbanized population. The US is gigantic, the population density is lower, and, furthermore, outsize political power belongs to almost totally unpopulated rural areas. I guess that's what jj was getting at complaining about suburban white flight, but that's a comical understatement of the problem: it really goes back to the founding of the country and the Compromise of 1787 that assigned seats in Congress.

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