• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    West coast gets 6 senators.

    The 4 least populous states on the east coast are Maine, Rhode Island, Delaware, and New Hampshire. They get 8 senators with a fraction of the population.

    These states have about 5 million people. California alone has nearly 40 million people

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      10 days ago

      That’s because California is so fucking massive. We could break it into 4+ states and it would probably benefit the Dems in Congress

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        10 days ago

        It would not creat more seats though, maybe a couple. The East is over represented and the west is under represented. Period. We keep getting shafted by terrible policy that doesn’t have a place in our environments. If we weren’t doing things ourselves, shit wouldn’t get done.