States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County, California
States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County, California
People who have never been to L.A. really have no idea how insanely huge it is. Driving to my apartment from the start of city (before you even get to L.A. county) and having the city just keep going and going and going for two hours and not because of traffic jams is something you have to experience to truly understand.
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2 senators each.
Even worse is the electoral college distribution among those populations. And the winner-take-all nature of our presidential elections
I mean that's why we also have representatives that match the population.
Even that is capped though, so the smaller states are still vastly overrepresented. Living in LA means your vote is only represented at ~1/100th as much as the least populated areas. Because even the least populated areas still get a representative, but the populated areas are capped on how many they can have.
Every state still gets at least one. Even if the population is 584,000
Unfortunately no because in 1929 the House of Representatives got capped at 435. For example, a Congressman from California represented
494,709 people while one from New Hampshire represented 3,448 people in the year 2020.Those must have been state congress numbers or something, idk, real numbers would be 750k cali and 700k NH, probably better examples out there for large differences.Edit: these numbers are not for federal congressmen, clearly. Correction made.