Race isn’t a factor in our constitutional setup.

It isn't, but like, at some level of under-representation you'd support reform, right? What if we split Wyoming into 100 states?

The annoying thing here is that our senate bias isn't about the founders. Germany has a senate too and it's biased toward the left because they have city-states. Our bias comes from the GOP creating a bunch of empty states in 1890's in order to keep the South out of power.

Good point but a little mellowed by the fact that the numbers of votes in the Bundesrat are still proportional-ish to state size. But yes, not having Bremen and Hamburg swallowed by, say, Lower Saxony is a "feature" for the SPD or Greeens. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundes…

It varies by population but not by *that* much