FEMA to end coverage for North Carolina recovery efforts

The population in that state is pretty similar to the US population, in that it is split fairly evenly between the republican and democratic parties. With the democratic party pretty consistently having a slightly higher percentage of the state population.

The governor is one of the few positions elected in a state wide popular vote, other positions state and federal, are elected in districts.

So while the governor is routinely democratic, both houses of the state legislature are 60% republican, and 10 of 14 federal congressional legislators and both senators are republican.

It is considered one of the most gerrymandered states in the US:

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/gerrymandering-deep...

I post this reply, since this is a major concern of mine for the US as a whole, not just North Carolina. Our 1776 government organization is so sadly antiquated, it leaves the US in a condition barely qualifying as democracy at all.

When someone can be elected in a district, with less population than my neighborhood, and if they are a significant fund raiser for their party, be put in a committee position that allows then to control legislation that affects the entire country, that is just not democracy.

Like the bulk of Europe after WWII, the US needs to adopt a parliamentary style proportional organization...