But size and geographic proximity do.
The money and power in this country are concentrated around the DC area (New York, Mass, Connecticut, but especially Manhattan). K Street in Washington is home to their cronies. Manhattanites know fsck all about life in rural America, and care even less. Since those monied interests drive everything the federal government does, the people not living in those vaunted halls of money and power have no representation to speak of in their federal government.
I do not like anything about Indiana state politics but I must confess those politics are more in line with the majority of Hoosier values. Perhaps it is not size alone, but size and geographic proximity still seem to impose limits on how successful this government has been (and is) with regard to accurately responding to the wants, needs and values of its people.
I do not like anything about Indiana state politics but I must confess those politics are more in line with the majority of Hoosier values. Perhaps it is not size alone, but size and geographic proximity still seem to impose limits on how successful this government has been (and is) with regard to accurately responding to the wants, needs and values of its people.