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The point is, many states were formed specifically to game the Senate. With urban migration, the population disparaties are forcing a tyranny of the minority, which is untenable.[/quote]

I’ve read your post like 7 times, and I STILL can’t figure out WTH you’re talking about. 
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That post is a summary of this historian's article.  Sorry you weren't familiar with it, but perhaps read it now?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/when-adding-new-states-helped-republicans/598243/

[quote]In 1889 and 1890, Congress added North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming—the largest admission of states since the original 13.[b] This addition of 12 new senators and 18 new electors to the Electoral College was a deliberate strategy of late-19th-century Republicans to stay in power after their swing toward Big Business cost them a popular majority. [/b]The strategy paid dividends deep into the future; indeed, the admission of so many rural states back then helps to explain GOP control of the Senate today, 130 years later.[/quote]

I mean, back then, the Republicans were the anti-racist party (they switched on race, welcoming Southern racists into their party, in 1964 w/ the passage of the Civil Rights Act, though it took a few decades for all the Dixecrats to join the GOP.)  But it was still the Republicans who admitted 6 states in 1889-90 to pack the Senate and Electoral College.[/quote]

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