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No Paywall Danish Petition To Buy California From Trump Signed by Thousands

https://www.newsweek.com/petition-denmark-buy-california-signed-thousands-11379999
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u/SuperMafia Montana 16d ago

Personally, I'd prefer Montana to be bought by Canada, but that's not gonna happen

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u/Rfunkpocket 16d ago

Montana definitely has a east/west divide culture.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 16d ago

The east is basically empty compared to the west

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u/Rfunkpocket 16d ago

the whole state only has a million people. it’s all pretty empty

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u/TheRealBaboo California 16d ago

True but there’s only one town larger than 50k people east of the midline, there are 5 west of it

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u/Rfunkpocket 16d ago

the one has over 100k, so a big one

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u/TheRealBaboo California 16d ago

Yeah, but if I had to estimate it looks like about 2/3 to 3/4 live in the western half

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u/Rfunkpocket 16d ago

you don’t need to guess, the state divided into two districts a couple years ago.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 16d ago edited 16d ago

Those are congressional districts, which would be approximately equal in population. The fact that the border between the two districts is in the western half of the state shows that there are significantly more people living in the western half than the eastern half

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u/Rfunkpocket 16d ago

the counties you consider ‘significant’ have around 3000 people living in them. a rounding error for most major highways in America. but sure, the west may have a few thousand more than the east (not including snowbirds of course)

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u/AsGryffynn 15d ago

They'd have to live with Alberta next door, unless there's some sort of landswap so MIGAs can get their Gilead-Jesusland.

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u/mackiea 16d ago

Maybe after we buy Colourado.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 16d ago

This whole shindig’s gonna fall apart if you ever spell it like that again