Ostensibly that’s the point of Congress having 2 chambers. The House where they have equivalent representation based on population, whereas the Senate ensures equal representation regardless of state sizes. The hashing-out between the 2 ensures states where everyone lives like California or Texas don’t hold all the power while states where nobody lives like Wyoming or Vermont gets no say whatsoever despite being part of the union.
But that still falls apart when you start mathing how many House Reps each state gets compared to their population. California’s 39~ million only gets 52 seats while Wyoming’s 584k gets 1 seat. So low pop states like Wyoming are still over-represented in both chambers with its one seat representing a pithy 584k while every Californian House Rep speaks for 749k each. Or how Texas gets 38 seats to represent their 30.5 million population, or 1 seat for ever 800~k persons.
Reminds me of an old-ish joke I heard about how if you asked what the Founding Fathers thought about California having almost 40 million people they’d respond with “There’s how many people in WHAT?”
