Once again, state politics are direct democracy. You don't go vote for your Governor and Representatives and your federal House and Senate candidates, and then have your county or district results generate an elector to vote on your behalf. There are no mini republics. Those states are operating as you are arguing for the federal level to operate, while complaining about their results and believing you can erase those results by removing the last vestiges of states rights. Throwing the baby out with the bath water, because there are no legitimate states rights issues, only bigoted ones. Your dismissal of any concerns from the rural and agricultural regions of California out of hand as there aren't enough of them to matter, and the later implication that they are just bigots anyway so should be ignored is pretty clear.

Your entire argument is that you don't like how conservative rural states are, because you are apparently better than them and want to rewrite the rules to finish writing them off. Not everything you disagree with is a dog whistle, Wyoming doesn't want to retain its 3 electoral college votes to disenfranchise brown people, and everything isn't a conspiracy of white supremacy. You seem to just want to handwave all state level rights conversations away as bigotry, and I guess you just keep on doing you. I don't expect this conversation to actually go anywhere from:

You fucking know it's just a power fix, "states rights" is just a dogwhistle for pulling the democratic rug before the browns and queers get too many rights.