apportionment
The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
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Really there’s a huge host of issues that would just not be, because of the ruralist bias in American apportionment and its asymmetry
Genuine question: how about biproportional apportionment?
This is the next big one. End census counting of illegals for apportionment and we return the country to sanity
The #Tennessee legislature is using the Louisiana ruling (banning race-based congressional apportionment) to create a race-based (white) apportionment.
I think a better way to get at this problem is to repeal the permanent apportionment act. The size of the US house was supposed to GROW with each census. If the number of house reps matched population CA would have…
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(US) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
“Really there’s a huge host of issues that would just not be, because of the ruralist bias in American apportionment and its asymmetry”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Genuine question: how about biproportional apportionment?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This is the next big one. End census counting of illegals for apportionment and we return the country to sanity”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
“The #Tennessee legislature is using the Louisiana ruling (banning race-based congressional apportionment) to create a race-based (white) apportionment.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I think a better way to get at this problem is to repeal the permanent apportionment act. The size of the US house was supposed to GROW with each census. If the number of house reps matched population CA would have so many it would SWAMP gerrymandering in FL or whatever.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
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