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In reply to the discussion: Adam Kinzinger Lashes Out After Democrats Redraw His House District, Likely Ending His Congressional [View all]Retrograde
(10,136 posts)Los Angeles: population ~10,000,000
Alpine: population ~1000
It seems to me that giving them each 1 representative might be a tad unfair
Then, the number of counties a state has is often based on historic reasons rather than the current state of affairs. California, population ~40 million, has 58 counties ranging in size from the 49 square mile San Francisco to the 20,000 square mile San Bernadino.
Iowa, much smaller in population, has 99. Wyoming, smallest state in population, thinks it needs 23, and Texas of course has to outdo everyone with 254 counties. So obviously this isn't the best way to assign representatives.
What we really need to do is increase the size of the House - set in the 1920s when the US population was less than a third of what it is now - so that each person in Congress represents roughly the same number of people as are in the smallest state.