Why don’t we have a census with a snap shot of all the counties in the US, and then apportion ONE Representative per county? Would it work?
No, it would not work.
There is no standardized U.S. designation of “county”.
Different methods have been used across the country.
For instance, Georgia has 159 counties.
Counties are all over the place in terms of population.
Because the House is apportioned on a population count, not a county count. Harris County in Texas has millions of people (4,698,619), but Liberty County has a fraction (86,323). You’d have to give Harris County 54 representatives to give Liberty County 1.
The issue is when you jigger the boundaries on ‘black’, ‘brown’, etc. neighborhoods.