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Scary fact from NPR article: What Coronavirus Exposes About America’s Political Divide
From the article:
“Right now, a majority of Americans live in just nine states and so are entitled to just 18 senators (less than one-fifth of the total), according to 2019 Census estimates. At the same time, about 18% of the population is spread out over 27 of the least populous states. So less than one-fifth of the nation’s population has a 54-seat majority in the Senate.”
Further down it continues:
“Defenders of the original Constitution and its view of states’ rights argue that the non-proportionate Senate still makes sense, or that it can be amended through the usual process. But a constitutional amendment requires three-fourths of the states to agree, meaning it can be blocked by as few as 13.”
Our founding fathers got a lot of things right, but there are a number of things, in retrospect, they could have done better. This is one of them. We do not want the urban side running roughshod over the rural areas, but right now it seems the rural is doing that to the urban.