If it were the other way you ' d still be complaining . Enough with this whole the e c was set up to stop men like trump bull shit . EC is there because the United States is a republic . made up of uh . United States . Each state gets their vote . that ' s how the republic works . Nobody is complaining about how many members of congress each state gets which is directly proportional to the amount of electors each state has . <| sep |> Why not get a cheap 3 . 5 mm splitter then ? Its much less expensive than a USBC to 3 . 5 mm adapter <| sep |> I don ' t know what it ' s like for other tribes in the region , but I imagine that it ' s particularly difficult for Nooksacks to prove tribal identity . I found this article when I was doing research in my undergrad effects of colonization on Salish languages on either side of the borderRichardson , Allan . Longhouses to Homesteads Nooksack Indian Settlement , 1820 to 1895 . American Indian Journal , 081979 , Volume 5 , Issue 8 Basically , Nooksack tribal land was divided up into homestead plots in the 1830 ' s , but in an effort to civilize the people , the U . S . offered their own land back to them under the condition that each person would have to renounce their tribal identity . So their options were either renounce and live freely on their ancestral land , or join the Tulalip reservation . They didn ' t get along well with the Tulalip , so a lot of people chose to renounce . This came back to bite them when the tribe applied for federal recognition in the 20 th century because so many people renounced in the last century , there ' s no official records of many people ' s lineages . Lots of people jumped ship to other tribes for the benefits that come with federal recognition , which makes it hard to rejoin the tribe . The tribe got federal recognition eventually , but lots of shit went down in the meantime and I wouldn ' t be surprised if that ' s influenced what ' s going on now .