Imagine that you have a nation that is one thousand square miles in size. Ninety percent of the nation is taken up by a city of ten million people. The other ten percent is empty desert and wilderness, populated only by a grizzled hermit named Jim. Tasked with inventing a representative political system for this country, you say, “Well, looks like there are two areas here, so I’ll draw a line between the city and Jim’s land, and I’ll give each an equal number of representatives. When the ten million city people want something they will have to negotiate with Jim, who has a power equal to all of them combined.”
Stupid, right? Yes. This is the United States Senate. This is quite literally the design of the U.S. Senate…
If this were the solution I would think you’d have to be constantly updating borders. Even if you ignored the inevitable conflicts which would arise of this, this solution itself would spur a certain amount of migration. (Thinking of the current trend of MAGATS moving to cultural “safe-spaces”, places like Florida and Texas.) This kind of radical border redrawing would accelerate these pre-existing trends IMO.