And yet almost three million more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton received the votes of more Americans in a single election than any American in history apart from Barack Obama.
Agreed. It overvalues the arbitrary location of current state (i.e., international) boundaries. They’re some distinction, of course — arbitrary-boundaries or not, people in the US went through a specific set of events and laws and cultural experiences — but we shouldn’t give it more weight than it deserves.