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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Oct 2020

    Arthur Chu Retweeted Michael Li 李之樸

    Whenever people count things by county, like how many different counties Trump won in the election etc, just keep in mind that a "county" is the most completely and utterly meaningless way to divide people up imaginable It is a word with no coherent definitionhttps://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1313487271505559552 …

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    Michael Li 李之樸Verified account @mcpli
    “Democracy, Texas style” (from Nick Anderson of the Washington Post). #txlege pic.twitter.com/cM1PCSp93z
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      2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Oct 2020

        They are just a line someone drew around an area of space on the map that made sense to them They are not in any sense balanced by population, the method of changing those lines is not carefully regulated at all, and what it means in terms of government varies wildly by county

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Oct 2020

        How much power a county has outside of the state government it's under and how much power it has over the municipal governments under it can range all the way from 0% to 100% Because a "county" can have anything from millions of people in it to five people

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      4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Oct 2020

        Or zero people! There are counties that logically can't be political entities at all because they have zero permanent residents but - because unlike a "district" a "county" is not defined based on any population requirement - they just go on technically existing!

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      5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Oct 2020

        This was a thing back in the good days in the UK, if you know your Gilbert and Sullivan you know the terms "rotten borough" and "pocket borough" The loophole where some rich guy could literally own his own seat in Parliament because he just bought all the land in a ghost town

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      2. Drew Arrowood‏ @DrewArrowood 6 Oct 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        Different school systems, tax rates, boundaries that have been pretty consistent on the century time scales, local zoning differences, differences in law enforcement ... and quite frankly, differences in regional accent.

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Oct 2020
        Replying to @DrewArrowood

        That's fine I'm not saying I'm against "counties" as a cultural artifact, just like "neighborhoods" existing on a level below cities However maybe don't make laws based on a demarcation with no population balancing, like saying every county gets one drop box

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      1. Katharsis‏ @Etherjack 6 Oct 2020
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        State borders are just as arbitrary. At least counties tend to be smaller.

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      1. Commander if the Wind Demons‏ @TBranin 6 Oct 2020
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        They don’t even have Countspic.twitter.com/kv4FGEdwNG

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      1. Ryan Whorton‏ @RealRyanWhorton 7 Oct 2020
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        Look at that. Harris county is in Houston one of Texas 4 major cities and loving county has like one small town.

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