They're Alpaca. Cruelty-free really narrows your choices.

He's a mentat.

It is by money alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Women Entrepreneurs that erections acquire speed, the underwear acquire stains, the stains become a lawsuit. It is by will alone I set this abortion in writing.

Isn't he just a Vulcan? They get pretty stupid when in heat, if memory serves...

Well there is no doubt this guy is a Rodent Of Unusual Size ( Kaiju class rodent ) so perhaps that is the appeal?

Each state gets two senators.
Washington shouldn't provide 4 senators.
Californian electoral votes tend to go for not the party that loves the South, though they are large enough to warrant 12 senators, although the senators they would provide would be more regionally affiliated and more radical, which wouldn't really help any of us.

I am fine with the current arrangement. Maybe having another 6 states wouldn't make a lick of difference.

The bigger solution is setting up a true North American Union, dividing the US up into governable sections based on common culture and giving a ten year fair warning so everybody who wants to be with their political buddies has time to move. What I, as a Northwesterner, have in common beyond language with a Texan or a Floridian or a Kansan is far too little to base a democratic peace on.

Gee why would the ultra wealthy want to split California's electoral votes?

If this country did split, the south would probably turn into North Korea: a nation of brainwashed dogma convincing the masses to slave in poverty and worship god kings while constantly threatening military action against their saner, better off neighbor for welfare concessions.

That happened like five years ago, Nominal.

The radicalization of our parties has a lot to do with great mobilizations. People are moving more than they ever did. They don't have to share neighborhoods like they used to.

I really think in our generation there's going to be some sort of splintering. Young people across the board are much more socially liberal, even in the South, but there's going to be some fighting before the old guard gives it up. The white man is restless.

I'd love to see an all southern state/country...would make banana republics look like a Marxist paradise.

But more likely it would be similar to this one, as most of the reasons southerners hate the government have to do with government benefiting people they don't like (re: niggers, queers, wetbacks, LIEberuls). Once taxes aren't in danger of going to the undeserving mongrel races, the republican base wont hate them nearly as much.