[dvwjr]

There was a good argument made that the United States House of Representatives was closely tracking a "cube-root" representative model of the total voting-age population to total Representatives from the time of the First Congress in 1789 to the 61st in 1910. That is when we got locked in to the "magic" number of 435 representatives. (See the below graph)

Source: Growth in U.S. Population Calls for Larger House of Representatives by Margo Anderson.

Bottom line, if we follow the 'cube-root' model, we would now have 588 Representatives based on the 2000 census, instead of the current number of 435 dating from 1910. Sounds about right to me...

dvwjr

[FairWitness]

Bottom line, if we follow the 'cube-root' model, we would now have 588 Representatives based on the 2000 census, instead of the current number of 435 dating from 1910.

To an analytical scientist, "happiness is a straight line correlation". Thanks for the graph. 588 would be an improvement

[Night Hides Not]

I recommend a 53.1% increase in the number of representatives.

That's right sports fans, that would put the number of representatives at 666!!! Finally, you'd have a bunch of folks really disturbed at what's coming out of DC!