Should the senate be changed?

[SInNYC]

I recognize the principle of having minority rights being represented as an original motivation behind the senate (though the minority was that of states rather than people of the states). I'll ignore for the purposes of this post that in reality other reasons were slavery and a holdover from the House of Lords.

However, at the time of the constitution, the states represented distinct interests that unified [white male landowners of] the state, and this doesn't hold today. I as a NYCer have way more in common with a Bostonian (Red Sox nothwithstanding) or a Chicagan than I do with somebody living in Binghamton. If we want to have a body to represent interests of particular groups, state boundaries are the wrong way to go about it. I'm not saying that such a change will happen or even that there is a viable approach for it to happen.