Should state legislatures give every county a certain number of legislators?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Before the one man one vote rulings of the 1960's a number of states approtioned their legislatures on that basis including SC.  Our State Senate still has 46 Senators because we have 46 counties, but  we no longer elect 1 per county.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Actually, J-Mann, if it worked like the former SC system it would be 105 not 210 Senators, and that assumes that you had that many counties.  Under the system  that had been in place in South Carolina, I doubt that some of those ultra-low population counties you are worried about would be independent counties, as new counties in SC always had to have enough population that both the new county and the old one(s) it was being formed from had at least 1/124 th of the SC Population.  (124 because that's the number of Representative we had and Representatives were apportied by county as well.  Still, once you get to anything greater than a 100:1 ratio I don't think even the most ardent honest supporter of county-based representation wouldn't say taht something isn't wrong and needs to be fixed, probably by merging small counties if you're going to keep that system.