On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
The idea of States and federal governments make no sense to me. Same country but different set of laws? Why even form a country?
The United States formed as a group of semi-sovereign political entities that wanted to make their own laws, but needed a common defense, foreign, and trade policy to prevent recolonization.
The founding fathers knew that the country wouldn’t agree on everything, so they set up a system where a lot of decisions would be made by more local officials.
Other federations work on the same principle. It is a lot easier to get political consensus in a smaller group than a larger one, so a lot of decisions are pushed to more local entities.
Look at lemmy. Same country, different laws per instance and different laws in the communities.
I don’t understand what the country is in your analogy
The country is Lemmy the software itself.
Lemmy works because you can create new instances and communities and change federation rules and move around between them completely uninhibited. In the real world, the overwhelming majority of people are stuck where they are with whatever government was there before they were born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism?wprov=sfla1
States are the test tubes of government ideas.