• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Plot twist: that large district is actually Delaware, which still has only one district, somehow)

    Because of the method used to calculate apportionment. It’s mathematically designed to assign each representative in a way that minimizes the average difference in population/representative.

    It’s actually very good at doing that, it’s just that a few states are very small and still get the minimum one House Rep and two Senators and four are so big they blow the curve on the other end.

    Frankly, we’d be better off in general if we merged some of the states that get one or two House Reps. We really only need one Dakota, for example.