Equal states, a reality?

Highlander

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Just got done reading How the States got their Shapes, a book that, even though I have my qualms with it, I highly recommend to all those interested in alternate shapes of states. Anyway, one of the major themes brought up throughout the book was that the government tried to make all states as equal as possible (seven degrees of width for several states, three for height.)

As I was thinking about this, I thought of Jefferson's proposal for states, that they should follow around two degrees of width. What if he got his way with the Commission for these states? Or more specifically, how would this effect state creation in the West? Could we see stricter, similar ideas, such as states kept to two or three degrees of height? How would this effect the government?
 
It'd be even more anti democratic than the present system.

You'd have smaller states with even smaller rural populations out west, so the electoral college would favor the Republicans even more.

As it stand now, I recall reading somewhere that an Idahoan gets more than 80 times as much representation as a Californian, in the US Senate.

Similar thing in the House makes the smaller populations states over represented, but not on the same scale. Some of the smaller population states don't have enough people to make up 1/435 of the US.
 

Highlander

Banned
That was something that was brought up on the other forum; those lands out west which are pretty barren would probably be divided into larger territories until they got higher populations, while those closer to the Mississippi would be smaller.
 
That was something that was brought up on the other forum; those lands out west which are pretty barren would probably be divided into larger territories until they got higher populations, while those closer to the Mississippi would be smaller.

So Alaska, Montana, and the Dakotas would still be territories today?

Bruce
 
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