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Originally Posted by MarchHare
You can't gerrymander an individual state-wide senate race, but the senate as a whole is inherently gerrymandered in a way that strongly favours the Republicans. The predominantly rural states with small populations have non-proportionate senate representation equal to the predominantly urban states with large populations. It's ridiculously anti-democratic that Wyoming (population 579k) has an equivalent number of senators as California (population 39.5M).
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I mean, if they didn't they wouldn't still be a country, so there is that.