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I think it's tied to when they capped the House. Something in there says that if you can't muster up X people you don't get to be represented. Remember Wyoming only has the automatic 1 congressman, I think them and New Hampshire are the only ones that low. Which isn't such a bad thing for NH, I've seen people with bigger butts than NH, but Wyoming is a big state, with almost no people in it. I was only hearing about it third hand from a coworker from Wyoming who's brother is a sherriff and still lives there. Never really dug into it, it was a cigarette break conversation. Seemed to amuse the crap out of the people in Wyoming though, at least the ones related to my coworker.

I tried a number of searches on google and found nothing that would indicate that your coworker was right. According to the U.S. Census (click here), every state is assigned a minimum of one seat. The rest (435-50) of the seats are then distributed according to an algorithm that is based on population. IOW, even if Wyoming whittled down to one person, they'd still get one seat in the House.

If you have further information to contradict this, I'd like to see it.. the very idea of Wyoming losing statehood amuses me too :)