What if State boundaries were redrawn so that each State had the same population?

[jeff47]

36. I'd expect the opposite

This map reduces the over-representation of the rural areas in the senate - Wyoming doesn't get two votes despite it's low population, for example.

And the political influence of the metropolises extend far beyond the political boundaries - The area surrounding Los Angeles would still mostly be blue, but now would have their own senators instead of sharing California's 2. And San Francisco would have an additional 2 instead of sharing California's two. And the areas surrounding San Francisco would have 2 Democratic senators instead of sharing California's 2. New York city would have 4 senators instead of 2, and the surrounding states would lean blue.

At the level of the states, I foresee ruined infrastructures as the nonurban states fight tolls and user fees, that would make high capacity urban transportation systems possible, as barriers to interstate trade.

Tolls and user fees are not the only way to fund such projects. Nor do such projects have to exist in only one state - DC's metro passes through two states and one pseudo-state.

In principle one of the things that's good about the senate is that senators represent all their constituents.

Except that Wyoming's 576,412 people have the same representation as California's 38,041,430. Not exactly fair to give Wyoming residents 66 times the power of California residents.