It has recently come to my attention that some kind of political event has upset a great many people. Apparently, two senior living residents are competing for the title of “president,” and this event occurs more frequently than a New Englander makes good food. You learn something new every day, I guess.
On a slightly more serious note, this election has made it abundantly clear that the current system does not work. Some state level officials have advocated for secession, depending on the final outcome of the election. There are many reasonable arguments for such a thing, but at this time it is highly unrealistic. For now, it would be wise to focus on things we can change. Walk before we can run, so to speak.
One of the things that we should be advocating for is a change as to how our states choose electors. Currently, most states use a simple majority of votes to decide how the entire state votes. Despite this sounding good on the surface, this completely disenfranchises anyone not living in urban population hives. The North is rife with examples of large cities effectively nullifying the ballots of the rest of the state. For example, New York City in New York, Chicago in Illinois, etc. Even in our beloved South, Atlanta has virtually taken over Georgia’s statewide voting. The Peach State is one of the more extreme examples of this (possibly tied with Virginia) in the South, and in her past also lies the answer.
From 1917 until 1962, Georgia Democrats used something called the “County Unit System” to decide their party primaries. In this system, counties would be put into one of three categories based on population: urban, town and rural. The largest eight (8) counties were classified as urban, the next 30 were classified as town, and the remaining 121 were classified as rural. The genius of this system was that each county, based on its classification, was allotted a number of unit votes: six (6) for urban, four (4) for town, and two (2) for rural. A simple majority of these unit votes was required to win the Democratic Party primary in Georgia.
This system still gave urban counties a larger say than rural counties, but did not allow them to disenfranchise the rest of the state. Detractors of this system will rightly point out that this gives an outsized voice to smaller communities. However, that was the entire point of the system, to give a voice to people who don’t live in huge cities. It’s funny how the “doesn’t live in city limits” minority never seems to be one the groups the Left cares much for.
Looking at the 2020 election maps at the county level further reinforces the need for this system. Out of the 159 counties in Georgia, 30 went to only one presidential candidate, 129 went for the other candidate. The candidate with 129 counties will likely lose Georgia (think about that). The story is similar in Virginia, where a small cluster of highly populated urbanite localities made the rest of the Commonwealth’s votes, interests, and needs irrelevant.
Even more stark examples of this can be seen outside Dixie, where Nevada went to the candidate who won only two (2) of 16 counties. This pattern is further established by reviewing virtually every state that has been declared for the Democratic candidate. Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Michigan and the largely looted and burned down Minnesota and Wisconsin all cement this pattern into an inarguable case for county unit systems.
This system would require tweaking based on population sizes and distributions in each state, but that is something states can and ought to determine for themselves. Another advantage of this system is that it does not require permission from the Federals. Maine and Nebraska already use different systems than the sophomoric “tyranny of the 51%” the other 48 states use.
The county unit system could be applied to gubernatorial races and U.S. Senate races as well, ensuring the housewives of GS-15s in Fairfax County no longer get to stifle the rest of Virginia with abortion-crazed governors who want to prove they are not racist by doing the moonwalk on live television. Ideally, Senate elections would go back to their respective state legislatures, but that particular genie is out of the bottle and this piece is not about achievable solutions.
City dwellers and other population hive residents fail to see that, in the long term, the county unit system is of great advantage to them, too. When more rural areas benefit, urban areas benefit. Urban areas rely on rural areas for food, water, electricity, new residents, and much more. Logic dictates that improving the places that supply everything a city needs to survive would then improve that city.
On the opposite side of that particular coin, ignoring the will of those ruralites will further increase the divide between city and country. Urbanites who seek hegemony over everything the light touches, based solely on their population per square foot, make the case for seccession without realizing it. The nominally patriotic among them are likely familiar with the term “taxation without representation.” Some of them may even know it was a causus belli for two revolutionary wars fought on American soil. A county unit voting system would likely help salve some of the current wounds our nation bears and would go a long way towards preventing a third conflict.
The county unit voting is like the Electoral College and would allow every state two (2) senators, regardless of population. They provide checks and balances that ensure similar minded people tightly packed into one area do not punish the rest of their state (or nation) with their myopic worldview and self-focused priorities. In a republic, the 51% must not have the option of ignoring the remaining 49%.
“It’s funny how the “doesn’t live in city limits” minority never seems to be one the groups the Left cares much for.”
The Left are overwhelmingly located in the sixteen Northern States and their Pacific Rim colonies. They’re only concerned with the South, and with the Interior West, insofar as those two regions constitute a burden to the Northern Left, and a threat to their hard won rule. Hard won in the Great Patriotic War of 1856-77.
The whole Urban vs. Rural dichotomy is just another Yankee head game, like moot slavery, designed to distract us from the fact that they’re still at war, politically, with the rest of the formerly United States. Which means us Southrons and Cattlemen in Wyoming.
The urban vs rural dichotomy, in the South, is really a conflict between urban Carpetbaggers and other foreigners in places like Atlanta, or Dallas, and the native Southern People in the surrounding suburban and rural areas.
In the Deep North, the dichotomy is more of a struggle over political power and the allocation of state resources, than a Clash of cultures. In the end, both are cognisant of their common Northern heritage and Identity, and of their adversarial relationship towards the rest of America, whom they regard as subordinate subjects, and whose states they regard as conquered colonial possessions and territories.
Simply put, things like the county system, or Jeffersonian Republicanism, or localism, etc, can only work in the South, where they were invented, or in the Interior West, outside of the Leftist, urban coastal strip, and Mexifornia. Where, along with Yankeedom, such ideas are naturally and necessarily foreign. The New England Moral-Political Paradigm, and the Puritan mindset which spawned it, are simply incompatible with a republican form of government, and with the Southern/Cavalier political philosophy, from which, such ideas of government do naturally and rightfully spring.
We haf to get rid of those states that went to war against us in 1856-61, to secure their empire, in order for us to restore our Rights, Liberties and Nation to their former glory and existence. If we don’t, or can’t. Or they themselves fail, or refuse to leave the so called Union, then the restoration is impossible, baring the collapse of the government in Washington DC.
On a sidenote; The county system would definitely help check and defeat the Carpetbagger and alien communities, which are necessarily concentrated in the urban centers, and in much of Northern Virginia and Florida.
Yup, an electoral college system for and within each of the several (formerly?) sovereign Republics under the Articles of Confederation and it’s agent the Constitution for Congress assembled within the “federal” enclave managing the territories owned “jointly in the entirety” by them, foreign affairs, and inter-Republic trade, etc.
Except it’s never going to happen. We’re going to be vaxxed chipped and killed before we ever get a country again. Because most people are simply retards.
This is fair and equitable. This is better than choosing electors by congressional districts, but the later is easier to sell to the States , in my opinion.
Good job!
“The county unit voting” is certainly a great idea but the Democrats would never allow it as it would clearly take away from their representation. Their allies in media would kill the idea as “racist” quicker than a chicken on a grasshopper. However, I do love the idea for a new political entity, whatever replaces the modern USA.