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Musings for Friday - 435 > 635 = Equity in Districts [1]
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Date: 2023-01-06
435 really doesn't even give us equality, but 635 gives us equity in districts.
I know, this is basically a pipe dream. But it shouldn’t be.
If you divide the current U.S. population of 334,246,572 by 435 you get 768,383 people per district. But that’s not the way it works. We have several states where their population is closer to 500,000 than 760,000. At the same time you have some Congressional Districts closer to 1,000,000 than 760,000. There’s no equity in that. not even close.
The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 is approaching 100 years. The U.S. population was 122,775,046 with each Congressional District having approximately 282,241 people. At that apportionment today we would have 1,186 Congressional Districts. Wouldn’t that be fun?
Would 635 Congressional Districts solve all of our problems? Of course not. But it could diminish some of the problems we currently have where a small minority can hold the entire House hostage. It would also diminish the ability for state legislatures to gerrymander a minority party into a majority of Congressional Districts.
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