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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 284: Should we redraw state lines?
Description: The boys drink and review a 2-year-old bottle of Raison D'Extra, then discuss proposals to redraw state boundaries.Â
They start off with a review of federalism, and the idea that the country is a collection of states, not simply a mass of people, which is why tiny Rhode Island and sparsely populated Montana get as many senators as California.Â
What happens when residents of a state feel they don't fit in that state?Â
The idea is being tested in Oregon, where the conservative, agricultural residents of the majority of the state differ drastically fro...