Kennedy Ice- up for grabs

[David Morris]

States are LANDs of vastly varying sizes and populations, but no matter how
big or small or denser or sparsely populated they each have two US
senators. Population is the main issue. Associated land area is secondary,
but still an issue.  But Jody's example of California's versus North
Dakota's (was it?) 52:1 population difference, but both with two senators
shows that some people's per-capita senate clout is far greater than others.

David Morris

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Who cares what tumbleweeds and coyotes think?! PEOPLE get to vote, NOT
> LAND FFS.
>
> Jerky
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 7:57 AM jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Of course, to be fair, I must acknowledge that Rhode Island, Delaware
> and Maryland, e.g., are tiny land areas, but also having two senators each,
> and that the more rural states' senators could be construed as only
> representing those smaller areas, including Native American Reservations,
> in their states, which are not federally controlled. But still, the
> inequity of the current senatorial representation (and congressional power)
> remains, and speaks to the arbitrariness of boundary lines drawn long ago.
> In the large, sparsely populated states there are, as Becky notes,
> complicated battles brewing between State and Federal authorities, leaving
> the local identities up for grabs.
> >
> > jody
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