The electoral college is not about identity it is about avoiding what de Tocqueville called the Tyranny of the Majority. Having grown up out west decades ago I was always keenly aware of and resentful of the Eastern elites trying to impose their narrow minded views about EVERYTHING on the rest of the country. One size does not fit all... except in Mao's China and Pot Pol's Cambodia. What might work in Manhattan would be a disaster in Butte... especially given the state of the rotten apple today. Texas is changing... and it's disaffected Californians who are moving there... and Tex/Mex voters are a lot more conservative than the people of Boston.