Alaska is > 17% of US land area, so if Mary Peltola wins, Dems will more than double their geographic footprint! Every other district they hold could fit inside AK-AL!
Fact: next year, Dems will represent 51% of all House seats but just 16% of the nation's land area, the smallest geographic footprint of any majority in modern history.
@jacobfhsmith
AK-ALโs representing ~a sixth of the nationโs land area conveniently allows us to sort the CDs by area and then create six ~equal (w/variance of no more than 5%) pots; we can say, then, that each of these comprises roughly the same share of land:
@jacobfhsmith
People, not land, vote. Talking in terms of acreage represented sounds like the opposite of the one person, one vote mantra of equal representation. Like weโre moving back to only land-owning men get true civic representation.