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  1. How different would US politics be if N Dakota, S Dakota, Montana, Idaho & Wyoming had been made into one state? Their combined pop now is 5.4M, ≈ to S Carolina or Minnesota. It'd get 2 senators, 7 House seats & 10 electoral college votes, rather than 10 S, 7 H & 17 EC votes.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      (Quoted graph about why and how that sparsely populated area got carved into five new and separate states - along with Washington - in 1889-90 is from @HC_Richardson's newsletter yesterday heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-20-2024 )
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