100% serious -- should dems focus on urbanizing swing states in order to lessen their institutional disadvantage?
People who live in cities tend to be a lot more open-minded as a consequence of meeting and becoming familiar with a wider variety of people. As we all know, each US state counts for 2 votes in the Senate regardless of population, and all states get 1 vote in the House for free before population is accounted for. This massively favors low-population states, which tend to be very rural.
Anyway, the growth of cities is something we can affect politically. We can rail for softer zoning codes, more public transit access, fewer anti-urbanism regulations (i.e. road width minima), more land value taxes, and more low-income housing. Maybe we could small-ish cities like Spring Hill, Florida and Charlotte, Michigan, which have yet to really pop as left-wing strongholds.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html
Anyway, the growth of cities is something we can affect politically. We can rail for softer zoning codes, more public transit access, fewer anti-urbanism regulations (i.e. road width minima), more land value taxes, and more low-income housing. Maybe we could small-ish cities like Spring Hill, Florida and Charlotte, Michigan, which have yet to really pop as left-wing strongholds.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html
