So now I don't get a vote?

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

But why? Why should geography play any part in our representative democracy? Going under the assumption that no one is isolated any longer from communication, why do rural Americans need more voting weight than urban Americans?


(Which Jazzman expressed more eloquently while I was posting.)

Because their needs are different, and without giving them some voting weight, their needs will never be attended to. A farmer in rural arkansas will be far more concerned about issues of, oh, let's say riparian rights, than someone who lives in a 1-br loft on the upper east side. And a farmer will certainly have different views on issues of immigration than an urban factory worker. To completely ignore one just because the other's vote is all you need to worry about is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.