To that “problem”, talking about how Philly shares senators with Pa coal country instead of Camden NJ. I just don’t see our problems being improved by a sort of national exercise in homogenization. Right now, there are no blue and red states. Just shades of purple. Your idea is to redraw states to make them blue or red to the extent possible. I don’t think you can. Urban areas tend to be blue, and rural red, with burbs having some swing. Any geographically contiguous areas will have all of them. Sometimes interests will cross state lines no matter how you draw them.

I don’t think we can redraw our way out of this mess. I do think we can reform the electoral count act, and we can pound away against partisan gerrymandering. We need a federal system that fully recognizes the disparate interests of a massive, geographically diverse country of 330 million very different people, and rewards compromise. Reducing political units to lowest common denominators, so to speak, won’t do that.

Our current physical structure is not the problem imo. How we view the world, and how we process the information we consume, is the problem, and redrawing states won’t fix that.