Why is this a barf alert? There are millions of Republicans in California who have no representation in the Senate. Same is true in I’ll and NY. Split up these huge -mostly blue - states for purposes of senate representation, so their voiceless conservative citizens can have their own senators
That’s what the House is supposed to be for. But CA with their “jungle primaries” subverted that.
The end result would be far more new Democrat senators in the Senate than Republican senators.
1. The Constitution was written with the expectation that states would be added to the original thirteen as the frontier was settled and new territories acquired. However, the Constitutional also contains a provision that requires the consent of a state legislature before a new state could be created out of the territory of an existing state. In the case of California, this might be workable because the leftists out there would have a strong incentive to increase their representation in the U.S. Senate from two to four, six, or even more.
2. However, the admission of new states also requires the consent of Congress. Look at Congress as it's set up now. What incentive does the GOP-led Senate have to admit two or more new states that would simply add Democrats to the Senate?
This isn't a new issue, by the way. These questions were asked almost every time new states were admitted to the Union -- which is why they were often admitted in pairs or groups (one in the North and one South, for example) as part of political compromises.