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In a country that has become as diverse as ours with ever fewer voters who fit the category of rural/small town white, heterosexual and conservative Christian the Democratic party should be able to do without these voters if it weren't for the tremendous advantage small states enjoy in the electoral college. Red North Dakota (pop. 500,000) and several other small conservative states each receives 3 votes. Blue Illinois (pop. 12,000,000) has 21. That gives the North Dakotan voter more than 3x the voice of the Illinoisan. The disparity is even worse in the case of New York and California. Then there's the ridiculous imbalance in senate representation that gives North Dakotans, to use once again only the most egregious example of many, 80x! the clout of Californians.
