45th parallel absurdist brigade

Angle lost, but driving across the Great Basin that year, multiple huge signs extolled people to vote for her. Because otherwise, they warned, Reid would send all the water to Vegas. A Biden win in NV is a win in Vegas and Reno. Most of Nevada doesn't like those cities much. 3/

If anything, they're seen as dangerous water parasites, with the concentrations of wealth needed to secure water rights, and deny them to the rest of the state. And Nevada is the driest state in the country. 4/

Arizona has slightly more precipitation overall. But both are sparsely populated desert states where rural people are keenly aware that any rain which falls on their land is already owned by one of the big cities downstream. 5/

We don't want the legitimacy of the election to come down to the faith which rural Nevadans and Arizonians place in the institutions that the major cities use to perform vote counts, is the thing. Because those are the same institutions that establish water and grazing rights. 6/