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[spamwarrior.livejournal.com]

Huh. And what do we do in ten years when the next census tells us things have changed? re-draw the lines?

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

If that ends up putting me in New Jersey, I'll sue.

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with New Jersey? :)

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

That guy looks like one of those "Jersey Shore" guys from New York, they're NYC's fault not ours.

[pepsquad.livejournal.com]

what isn't wrong with jersey?

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

Everything except for our Governor...and the morons who infest the shore in the summer who mostly come from New York.

[pepsquad.livejournal.com]

i don't mind the gov. he has some rotten ideas but there is some bright lining my inlaws sour the state for me.

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

my inlaws sour the state for me.

That's hardly New Jersey's fault.

[pepsquad.livejournal.com]

I can hold it against jersey if I want.

[joshthevegan.livejournal.com]

As a citizen of Pennsylvania, I can definitely say: quite a bit. Proof? You can get in for free, but you have to pay to get out.

Further proof: Bon Jovi, Tiffany, and John Travolta. Granted, you gave us Count Basie, Allen Ginsberg and Joe Flacco, but the Bon Jovi thing is just inexcusable. ;-)

[udoswald.livejournal.com]

You have to pay to get out because the experience is so great. On the other hand, you'd never charge someone escaping a disaster which is why you don't have to pay to get out of PA.

And what has PA given us? Pennsyltucky? Ira Einhorn? Jerry Sandusky? Ben Roethlisberger?

And I won't hear a bad word about Bon Jovi, he's a national treasure.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

if it becomes a large enough difference maybe, but its better than currently where some 2 senators need only please a million voters vs some who represent and must please 20 million.

[icelore.livejournal.com]

That's the point of the House. Proportionally equal representation based on population gives more power to urban areas, representation based on state affiliation balances that out. Kind of supposed to be a best of both worlds scenario.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we shouldn't have lines but density regions.

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

> Huh. And what do we do in ten years when the next census tells us things have changed? re-draw the lines?

Having to redraw constantly is a bureaucratic pain, having to suffer unequal representation is an existential threat to the idea of representative democracy.

Of course, any criticisms of Mr. Freeman's effort should note the disclaimer "Keep in mind that this is an art project, not a serious proposal, so take it easy with the emails about the sacred soil of Texas. "

My own idea is that these kind of problems are inevitable when you want to have a strictly geographically derived representation model for the legislative branch and/or presidential elections. There are lots of schemes for mixing geography with other models so that mixed mode representation can balance the inequality inevitable from geographically linked methods. There are also methods for decoupling legislative representation from geography utterly, but implementing them would make things like "states" irrelevant, and so they are resisted by people with vested interests in the states as institutions.