For a country boy like me (especially one who is a traditionalist), this subject is also near and dear to my heart.
I like your analogy of one Senator for 8 or 9 Western states...
Of course, people from the blue states would ask "what's wrong with that?
Agrarian, I want you to think of this discrimination against us rural-sexuals as "rural cleansing!" Now that we've given the cause a name, all we gotta do is get Alito in there in spite of Binden and then bring a case up for re-visiting. We never impeached Earl Warren, but maybe we can un-do some of his evil unconstitutional shifting!!!