One-person-one-vote, reasonably sized legislative districts, and more
California independence is hard for a lot of people to picture; maybe people can imagine Californians going to the polls to vote on a declaration “What California independence looks like: 12 ways California is already moving towards independence (and one more thing to try)”
One of the great myths about the United States is that it’s a democracy where all Americans have an equal say. In fact, Californians have less “Bearly Represented: How the U.S. Constitution makes Californians second-class voters”
Smaller states overrepresented in Congress tend to lean conservative and Republican and, as big blue states like California grow, the power of smaller counterparts actually increases in “Backers of California Secession Say State’s Senate Representation Is Dire”
The area of each state on this map shows how much representation in the U.S. Senate the average resident gets. For example, the average Wyomingite “Representation in the U.S. Senate (Map)”
