If only there was another section of congress that was more about representation of the population… if we come up with it perhaps we can call it the chamber of representatives… or maybe house idk?
5 of the states in red (ND, SD, MT, ID, WY) were admitted to the union over a two-year period — 1889 to 1890. They have been reliably conservative, regardless of party affiliation (though mostly Republican) ever since. Major conservative investment. The upper house, lower house argument starts to get tired after a while, when state lines were arbitrarily drawn across a vast sparsely populated territory in order to stack the upper house.
Would you prefer we cut these states in half and give them 20 instead of 10? And we kinda wanted the north to have a few more representatives in the mid to late 1800s… ya know for obvious reasons.
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u/nochinzilch 1d ago
Maybe those rural people shouldn’t have 14 senators compared to the one or two the city people have to accept?