<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default">> I think there should be a constitutional amendment that says a state </span>must<span class="gmail_default"> contain</span> at least 5%<span class="gmail_default"> of the total population of the country</span></font></b></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><i><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>There are 50 states. </font></i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I know, and<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>that's why 5<span class="gmail_default" style="">0 is far too many states</span><span class="gmail_default" style="">, we only need about 20, maybe  even less. Why on earth do we need 2 Dakotas when both of them have tiny populations?  </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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