• Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2

  • United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2

  • Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)

  • Glasgow urban area population: 632,350 (2020)

  • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
    131·
    3 months ago

    The Senate was the solution, the house is meant to be population based but they ran out of space in the chamber and capped it instead of just building a bigger room so now Wyoming is massively overrepresented.

        • John_McMurray@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          3 months ago

          Wyoming is massively overrepresented.

          You want less than one congressman per state or what? California has 40 or 50, there’s like 5 states with one congressman. Spare me the crocodile tears about you’re so under represented.

          • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
            71·
            3 months ago

            They weren’t suggesting that there be less than one congressman in Wyoming. You seem to have entirely ignored the actual suggestion they were making, which seems difficult.

            • John_McMurray@lemmy.worldEnglish
              111·
              3 months ago

              Nah. They were just crying because they think their team will have an easier time pushing someone else’s team around if certain states get even more congressmen

      • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        And that one congressman represents 500k people, Meanwhile each of Florida’s represents 800k people. Why should the people of Florida’s votes be worth 60% of a Wyoming voter’s? Why should we not just give Florida 11 more congresspeople so it’s even?