• Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2

  • United Kingdom area: 244,376 km2

  • Wyoming population: 576,851 (2020)

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

  • @vladmech
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    296 months ago

    Disproportionate representation can be kind of a bummer for the under represented folks. Get rid of the senate and remove the cap on the house!

    • unalivejoy
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      106 months ago

      Sadly that will never happen (peacefully) because the smaller states would never vote to reduce their own power. That’s not even considering it would require a constitutional amendment, which is notoriously hard to pass.

    • @John_McMurray
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      -46 months ago

      Wyoming is the under represented folks, this was the solution.

      • @[email protected]
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        126 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
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          -106 months ago

          This is a lie, Wyoming has ONE congressman.

          • @ripcord
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            66 months ago

            What part is a lie?

            • @John_McMurray
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              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
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                66 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
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                  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

                  • @ripcord
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                    56 months ago

                    No, they weren’t.

                  • @Apollo42
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                    6 months ago

                    Man some of you Americans are so fucked, no wonder your politics is a fucking mess.

                    I feel bad for the sane!

          • @[email protected]
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            36 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?

      • @jumjummy
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        36 months ago

        Take a look at https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Census10/FedRep.phtml?sort=Elec#table

        California has 678,945 residents per elected representative versus Wyoming’s 284,150, meaning that Wyoming’s residents have an almost 3x voice. Wyoming is the most represented state by population ratio and California is last.

        As others have said, that’s what the senate was for, while the House should have a static ratio across all states with the count increasing by total national population.

        • @John_McMurray
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          6 months ago

          boo fucking hoo. they have 40 plus representatives, Wyoming is a big state. 2 senators and a congressman. Person could easily argue a Californians vote is worth much more, that state has a whole team going in the house. the ratio is basically static, except for states that no longer the population to get one. Like do you want Wyoming and north dakota to share a house member? That’s not practical either.

          • @Viking_HippieOP
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            36 months ago

            Wyoming is a big state.

            In area, sure, but most of it is empty or populated by more cows than humans. You’re basically saying that empty land and cows deserve equal representation to humans.

            Person could easily argue a Californians vote is worth much more

            You could, but you’d be very very wrong. A third as much is not more.

            Like do you want Wyoming and north dakota to share a house member?

            Wouldn’t be any more stupid than the current situation 🤷

            • @John_McMurray
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              -76 months ago

              it’s hilarious how you can tell roughly where anyone is from by the propaganda they bought.

              • @Viking_HippieOP
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                56 months ago

                So where do you think I’m from?

                By your own logic, I’d guess you’re from somewhere with more livestock than people and a severely underfunded education system.

                • @John_McMurray
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                  6 months ago

                  PNW or the western coast, although i’d bet you moved there.

                  • @Viking_HippieOP
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                    You’d lose that bet bigly lol. I don’t live anywhere near there, never have.