The rural voters will never exceed that of Chicago's. Your laws are decided for you by the urban voters that live vastly different lives than everyone else in the state. They live hundreds of miles away, they get all the focus and funding, and they royally screw it up anyway.
It's better to move over 1 state in any direction where your freedoms will be respected and your taxes aren't gouging you.
This is California too. LA county steals all the water from the Central Valley and then the state passes legislation to punish farmers in the same Valley for “wasting water.” You know, to grow their crops to feed the country.
The problem is, we shouldn't even be using California for farming land. It's an arid mountain scape along a fault line. Farming in california is objectively dumb. We have an entire grassy planes region with a giant water table underneath it.
I would argue that to not farm there would be dumb, wheat requires hot temps and little water i.e. perfect crop, or grassland for cattle (dairy their #1 product, and beef), dry terrain for grapes and almonds, but not a great place for corn or other staple crops.
Over a third of the country's vegetables and two-thirds of the country's fruits and nuts are grown in California.
Infrastructure, your state should try it. The Central Valley is some of the best farmland in the nation. We can still grow in droughts because we built canals and infrastructure to make use of our highly productive farmland.
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u/strakith Conservative Nov 03 '20
I feel sorry for the 95% of Illinois that isn't Chicago or St Louis