-
Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2
-
United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2
-
Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)
-
Glasgow urban area population: 632,350 (2020)
Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2
United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2
Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)
Glasgow urban area population: 632,350 (2020)
Disproportionate representation can be kind of a bummer for the under represented folks. Get rid of the senate and remove the cap on the house!
Sadly that will never happen (peacefully) because the smaller states would never vote to reduce their own power. That’s not even considering it would require a constitutional amendment, which is notoriously hard to pass.
Senate, yes. House, no.
The House used to regularly increase in size and has only been at 435 seats since 1911 and capped at that size since 1929. This is changeable through normal law making.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-house-got-stuck-at-435-seats/
Oh 100% a pipe dream, yeah, but it would be so rad
Wyoming is the under represented folks, this was the solution.
Take a look at https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Census10/FedRep.phtml?sort=Elec#table
California has 678,945 residents per elected representative versus Wyoming’s 284,150, meaning that Wyoming’s residents have an almost 3x voice. Wyoming is the most represented state by population ratio and California is last.
As others have said, that’s what the senate was for, while the House should have a static ratio across all states with the count increasing by total national population.
boo fucking hoo. they have 40 plus representatives, Wyoming is a big state. 2 senators and a congressman. Person could easily argue a Californians vote is worth much more, that state has a whole team going in the house. the ratio is basically static, except for states that no longer the population to get one. Like do you want Wyoming and north dakota to share a house member? That’s not practical either.
In area, sure, but most of it is empty or populated by more cows than humans. You’re basically saying that empty land and cows deserve equal representation to humans.
You could, but you’d be very very wrong. A third as much is not more.
Wouldn’t be any more stupid than the current situation 🤷
it’s hilarious how you can tell roughly where anyone is from by the propaganda they bought.
So where do you think I’m from?
By your own logic, I’d guess you’re from somewhere with more livestock than people and a severely underfunded education system.
PNW or the western coast, although i’d bet you moved there.
You’d lose that bet bigly lol. I don’t live anywhere near there, never have.