"Coastal, Urban Enclaves" among other meaningless cliches

If I read one more article about “coastal elites, clinging to their urban enclaves" vs the vast red spaces of "authentic, real” America, I’m going to take up smoking again.

There seems to be this notion out there that land mass equals democracy, that acreage is somehow what counts in our democracy, not the people who live in it. Democracy is not "One Sagebrush, One vote." It’s not "One Rattlesnake, One Vote." It’s not "One Tractor, One Vote." It’s not "One square mile, One Vote." Democracy is "ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE," Whether they live in Hoboken or Flat Rock Idaho. One. Human. Being. One. Vote. Each state consists of the people that live in it, not its geographic features. There's no constitutional requirement that for something to count as "real" American it has to be smack dab in the geographic center of Kansas, surrounded by hay bales and cows. Even in the reddest of red states, the majority of the population is confined to comparatively tiny slivers of land. They’re called Cities. You may as well look at a map of Texas and say that all Texans living in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio are “clinging” to their little island enclaves surrounded by the vast, so much more consequential empty spaces of the "real"Texas!

So, all you journalists out there, this habit of thinking is beyond stupid. Knock it off.