1000% true. Makes it so much easier for unpopular, minority ideas to make a much bigger impact because it limits voting power of the majority. Without the current arbitrary limit, you'd set the number of congressmen each state gets by the least populous state divided by 3 (since each state gets 2 senators and at least 1 representative). That state is Wyoming and they have just under 600,000 people. With 1 congressman per 200,000 people, California alone would have 196 representatives and 2 senators.

The best option is to rewrite the constitution and put some population restrictions on state representation in Congress (because why does a state with less people in it that the unrepresented city of Washington DC have 3 congressmen?!). But as that seems very far away, the best thing that would be done is to get rid of the cap on representatives and let all Americans have an equal (representative) vote in Congress.

Plus with 1,555 representatives (plus 100 senators) we can loosen the two party stranglehold on this country.

It’s incredible to me just how many people don’t even know it’s a thing! Schools still just uncritically teach that the house has proportional representation, but it simply doesn’t!

As a leftie who moved to a red state a decade ago, welcome to the suck. It only gets worse.

Of those in red states during presidental elections, they are around 25-35% of voters that voted for a Democrat president. And there's a big untouched potential with nonvoters who aren't convinced by either political party. There's no reason to give up on any state

Ngl, I just spent a week in Indiana. Hate to say it, but the vibe was truly "beyond all hope."

You need people to move into the countryside, ideally where they aren't selling land or building houses, and there's no jobs. Plus it may well be an environment that will gerrymander the hell out of any such transplants if they happen to clump up.

I'm not saying it's a bad plan, but it's a hail-mary pass at best, and you need a lot of people to do this. Consider what the Libertarians tried with New Hampshire a while back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project

Texas will very likely gain a blue voting electoral college vote.

eh? Not sure I'm understanding you. EC votes in Texas are winner-takes-all.

Thank you for pointing out the issues with fptp - so many people don't understand just how big of an issue it really is. We will never see the change we want (or honestly any real change at all) without abandoning it. Not to diminish your other valid points, I just have a particular passion about that one.

Yep, most of the people leaving those blue states are leaving due to high cost of living and going to cheaper states. The HCOL means they're likely from metropolitan areas, meaning they're likely democrat voters. Very few of them are going to rural areas, they're going to cities in the cheaper states. This will have a bigger impact on presidential elections than congress, due to gerrymandered maps. It might be enough to flip these states as they're all-or-nothing states.

They will always happen. The illusion of democracy is valuable even to the fascists.

Whether they mean anything, or ever meant anything, is the question.

Mormons and skiers, also a decent amount getting born there too. There fertility rate may not be positive but it's a lot better then the other states so they're relatively gaining population.

Out of the 4 reds it's the best option, tho. Those places are hell

or when the president wants it to it seems

See white flight and pandemic relocation

No, this would almost certainly be a symptom of the Republic functioning more or less correctly. I'll get to what that means in a moment.

Each state gets exactly two senators and at least one congressman. If the state has a large population, it gets more congressmen, which is why, say, Virginia has more congressmen than Wyoming does despite Wyoming being physically larger. Nobody lives in Wyoming.

Well, what if a large number of people move out of Virginia and move into Wyoming? Why should the state of Virginia keep representatives for people it no longer has? This is a major reason we do a census every ten years.

There is some rot to be removed here: The number of representatives was capped, so instead of "count your population, divide by 100,000 and send that many representatives) or whatever, there's this weird algorithm where "everyone gets one, and then we rank the states by how many people are represented per congressman. The one with the biggest people to congressman ratio is issued another congressman, until they've all been distributed." Which still makes it kinda goofy.

Yes, I'm from the great state of 3.