>And it says in the Constitution that the Senate, which by giving
>small (rural, conservative) states exactly the same weight as large
>(urban, less conservative)
Woah there, big fella. I agree with your ends, but your means (little state=conservative, big=less conservative) are a little wacky. Florida and Texas skew that equation quite a lot. And what about Pete Wilson, Rudy Guiliani, and George Pataki? On the other side, Vermont, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, even Iowa, have been, both historically and contemporaneously, the locus of lots of radical political action. And the latter, it seems to me, are way more alienated from the Constitution and the federal government, and would be much quicker to junk them than the less conservative types in, say, Soho.
Eric