No, that it not correct.
It is a concept directly from the U.S. Constitution with reapportionment of representatives after each census to individual states, with the purpose of giving each state as equal a number of representatives as their population as practical, with some low population states getting just a single representative for the entire state, the minimum number that can be allotted.
That concept of representation at the state level is a continuation of the practice at the federal level.
“It is a concept directly from the U.S. Constitution with reapportionment of representatives after each census to individual states, with the purpose of giving each state as equal a number of representatives as their population as practical, with some low population states getting just a single representative for the entire state, the minimum number that can be allotted.
That concept of representation at the state level is a continuation of the practice at the federal level.”
Reapportionment is a separate issue from representation. Reapportionment simply determines the number of representatives a state would have, but has nothing to do with WHO the representatives represent. That was up to the legislatures to decide, that is, until the Supreme Court ruled that every representative must represent the same number of people.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a representative representing an individual town (or county), and by extension, all the people within that particular piece of land.
This goes against the liberal hive-mindset, however. For they want representatives to represent “communities” (i.e. communes), groups of people, not plots of land. They want black representatives, hispanic representatives, gay representatives, women representatives, to represent different peoples. Where the American tradition has been “that particular plot of land gets a representative.”
Neither is particularly wrong, but you can see the hive-mind when you read stores about how the US Senate is “un-democratic” because it’s members represent land rather than people. They don’t like that. So this Supreme Court case returning redistricting power to legislatures is very worrisome to them.