States are artificial boundaries. You can just as easily make similar arguments within a state.
Let's take my native Illinois for example. Chicago controls the state mostly. Do you think every county should also be entitled to an equal number of senators? Doesn't Farmer Butch in Effingham need to have his voice heard?
The reality is simply that every person should be entitled to equal representation, and the current system does not do that. What it does is give people in small states unfair influence on the American political process.
Agreed. The concept of
states' rights is deceptive. States only have the rights that the people in them have.
State boundaries are not arbitrary actually. Each state government has great legal sway due to its constitutional rights. The laws it creates drive certain people away and attract others. Not only people, but businesses as well. So over time each state develops its own unique culture, political leanings, and economy. I frequently drive through the other three four corner states, and the difference you see between a city on one end of the border and one on the other is stark (for me at least). A rural city in southern Colorado has a culture and economy that is distinct from a rural city in northern New Mexico.
Maybe to a certain degree. But places usually reflect moreso the culture of nearby places over state boundaries, than those further away in the same state. For example, the Panhandle of Florida has far more in common with Alabama than with Key West.
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