Should state legislatures be unicameral?

[BuckeyeNut]

Reynolds v. Sims ought to be overturned, with state Senate districts once again being tied to counties.

This sounds like a terrible idea.

Less populated areas are already overrepresented. Why should someone in Cuyahoga County (pop. 1,280,122) have the same representation as someone in Athens (pop. 64,757)? The representative function of the State Senates is not the same as that of the US Senate.

[BuckeyeNut]

Reynolds v. Sims ought to be overturned, with state Senate districts once again being tied to counties.

This sounds like a terrible idea.

Less populated areas are already overrepresented. Why should someone in Cuyahoga County (pop. 1,280,122) have the same representation as someone in Athens (pop. 64,757)? The representative function of the State Senates is not the same as that of the US Senate.

That is a bit of a tautological argument - of course state Senates do not have the same role for counties as the US Senate has for states, because the Supreme Court forbade such a thing!

Upper houses are meant to focus concentrated power, nothing stipulates that should be done geographically. In some states, you'd actually wind up with Senates bigger than the House. Ignoring Constitutionality, municipalities provide much clearer communities of interest than counties, anyway.