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[–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

How many more square miles do you want that one person to represent, Professor?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Take some number of citizens C.

    If the population of the state is P, let the number of Representatives (R) be P/C, rounded up [R=ceil(P/C)].

    Note how land area is not a part of the formula.

    If Texas were the size of Detroit while maintaining the total population size, would you argue in favor of reducing their representatives to 1 or even 0?

    If the answer is yes, you need to take a civics class. Your question is like asking how much wax you need to make a crayon be blue; the hue of the crayon is entirely independent of the total amount of wax. Hopefully that's an analogy you understand.

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