• Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2

  • United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2

  • Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)

  • Glasgow urban area population: 632,350 (2020)

    • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
      131·
      8 months ago

      The Senate was the solution, the house is meant to be population based but they ran out of space in the chamber and capped it instead of just building a bigger room so now Wyoming is massively overrepresented.

    • jumjummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      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.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          52·
          8 months ago

          Wyoming is a big state.

          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.

          Person could easily argue a Californians vote is worth much more

          You could, but you’d be very very wrong. A third as much is not more.

          Like do you want Wyoming and north dakota to share a house member?

          Wouldn’t be any more stupid than the current situation 🤷