Thursday, October 06, 2016

Federalism is becoming creaky ...

Why should all those lightly populated states with a fraction of our numbers have the same number of Senators that California has?

Oh yeah -- because the Founders made a compromise to appease local loyalties -- read slave holding Southern oligarchs -- when they wrote the Constitution. This undemocratic residue of past injustice is one more legacy of white supremacy.

1 comment:

Brandon said...

This is something to think about. Population shifts over time, from east to west, from north to south. Interestingly, much of the South has gained in population.