compacts to get around those complications. But I do think redrawing would help solve the Senate problem. And the House needs to be expanded by a lot. Because what you would like to see happen is monumentally difficult in the current environment. Power is what it is about. The move to consolidate minority power in the states is well underway. It is in fact, a regression, a re-litigation of old arguments about state vs federal authority.

This country didn't start to become a broad, multi-racial and multi-cultural democracy until the 1960's. Before that, states used their authority to enforce apartheid. They're attempting to do that again and, in both cases, to prop up money and power. Even more basic, there is no reason that anyone should have to give up rights because they move from Washington to Alabama. States don't get to decide or limit your rights as an American citizen, or at least they shouldn't. This is an old argument, too. For a long time, it was not assumed that the bill of rights necessarily applied to the states. A lot of people on the right have argued a return to that and indeed, SCOTUS has already made voting rights a casualty.

The states have quite often stood in the way of progress.