For you folks in VA, if you want relief (a cure) for the overwhelming liberal/leftist population in the cities controlling the entire state, make Virginia to a republic. All it takes is to give each county one senator. Then, it won't matter how the population is divided/Gerrymandered for the House of Representatives. If VA is anything like OK, you have two houses of representatives, and you folks living out in the countryside are at the mercy of the population centers.
Reform your senate as I described, and nothing will pass out of the VA legislature that isn't good for either the cities or the countryside. If the cities want to do something special, let them handle it on their own and not drag the rest of the state, kicking and screaming, along with them.
Woody
I want to scream. WE HAD THIS! It was stolen from us by the USSC. Most states used to have a system like the Federal system, where the representatives were based on population, and the Senators were by geographic location (Counties).
"Baker vs Carr" and associated cases, rescinded that and required Senators be allotted by population, thus ensuring Seattle would RULE Washington, Denver Rules CO, etc and on-
This was done to ensure "equality, one person, one vote , the same old bushwah. One opposing Justice made the comment, the plaintiff is not saying they are not represented, they are saying they did not get their way... This is the same reason the
communists Democrats are talking about getting rid of the electoral college-to ensure the major (
communist Democrat dominated) areas can rule over the rest of the US.
On retirement, Earl Warren, Chief Justice, said this was the most important case of his tenure on the court. THE MOST IMPORTANT.
People are always complaining about how the urban areas seem to have control of their state, but most do not seem to understand why- it was a deliberate attack on a well designed system that had been set up to give rural areas a voice.
Of all USSC cases, this is the one I would like to see challenged. The situation in Virginia, where 95 percent of the counties are opposing Richmond, might be a good argument that representation has been illegally taken away from the rural areas.
