Told you this was coming.......

[Jarod]

All those extra seats in BLUE states? GONE! All those extra EC votes in Blue states? GONE! EC votes taken from Blue states and shifted to growing red states? YES SIR! Tic tic tic tic tic tic.........

My prediction when everything is shifted and tallied? Net gain of 5-8 EC votes gained by red states. Those votes matter,...a lot! As far as seats go? Yet to be seen but my guess is fairly substantial. Add this to the overall trend towards Red sweeping the country and there is big change coming our way.

What are the words in the Constitution?

 

[Jarod]

All those extra seats in BLUE states? GONE! All those extra EC votes in Blue states? GONE! EC votes taken from Blue states and shifted to growing red states? YES SIR! Tic tic tic tic tic tic.........

My prediction when everything is shifted and tallied? Net gain of 5-8 EC votes gained by red states. Those votes matter,...a lot! As far as seats go? Yet to be seen but my guess is fairly substantial. Add this to the overall trend towards Red sweeping the country and there is big change coming our way.

“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States... according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons... three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct."

Article 1, Section 2, clause 5.

 

[Poor Richard Saunders]

They damn near were. You lived in a rent controlled (by the company) home in a town where the company set all the rules. There was a company store that extended credit to employees pretty freely. If, however, you had a credit balance you couldn't quit until paid it off in full and your pay was docked automatically for the minimum payment on that balance.

So, yes, up through the 70's mining towns often were plantations where the company owned everything and the employee just got a varnish of freedom over the truth of being essentially "owned" by the company.

Plantation -
3
a. : a place that is planted or under cultivation
b. : an agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Plantation -
3
a. : a place that is planted or under cultivation
b. : an agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor

"Plantation" also can mean:

1. a large farm or estate in a tropical or semitropical zone, for the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, etc., typically by enslaved, unpaid, or low-wage resident laborers.

And it is often used to describe similar circumstances in other industries like mining in particular. Company towns are the epitome of "low-wage resident laborers."

 

[Damocles]

If republicans do not hold the Presidency after 2028 election, and someone like Biden gets in that will literally remove all barriers for illegal immigration, it is possible that all the gains the republicans made based on how many illegal immigrants are in blue states can be erased regardless.

Republicans will have to be more than "we support Trump" as he will no longer lead the party into this populist nonsense, and JD Vance does not have a strong enough personality to keep that kind of thing going.

 

[Poor Richard Saunders]

"Plantation" also can mean:

1. a large farm or estate in a tropical or semitropical zone, for the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, etc., typically by enslaved, unpaid, or low-wage resident laborers.

And it is often used to describe similar circumstances in other industries like mining in particular. Company towns are the epitome of "low-wage resident laborers."

1. a large farm or estate in a tropical or semitropical zone,