What areas of the United States have enough population to form their own district, but are effectively cracked?
And what areas have disproportionate influence despite their small, and declining populations, due to legacy Congressman and careful redistricting?
Some examples:
Category A:
1. Beaumont/Port Arthur - ~600k people, cracked between 2 districts, and represented by 2 members of the Houston suburbs.
2. Reading PA metro area - Also about 500+k people, cracked between several districts.
3. Akron, Ohio metro area - 700k people, ditto
Category B:
1. St. Louis - ~350k people, and 2 Congressional districts. Recently rectified.
2. Detroit - Ditto. 600k Detroit blacks get 2 Congressional districts.
The entire state of Texas is overrepresented in congress because illegal immigrants are counted by the census... but they are not citizens and cannot vote.
Sometimes I think house representation should be doled out based on the average number of voters in the past two presidential elections. You'd see the south's representation plummet while it rose by a ton in the upper midwest and New England.
