To send your point even further home , Sioux is a racist slang term that originally came from the Chippewa and it means snakes which were associated with evil and also demons . The actual name for the Sioux is the Lakota . <| sep |> Yeah , I see that argument , but this doesn ' t solve that problem . Now , instead of the urban majority getting their way over the rural minority , it ' s the rural minority getting their way over the majority . The majority of Americans are not being represented by this presidency . It ' s worse this way , not better . You claim that the electoral college prevents tyranny of the urban majority . But you ignore the fact that now we ' re getting a tyranny of the minority . We ' ve solved nothing .