2020 Interstate Senate Redistricting

[MarkD]

Several years ago, I had a somewhat similar idea, but my idea was to have only 87 US Senators, each elected from a "district" made up of 5 adjacent congressional districts. Using current apportionment data, Upper New England -- ME, NH, VT -- would be one senatorial district; MA-3, MA-5, MA-6, MA-7, and MA-8 would be one district; the state of RI combined with MA-2, MA-4, and MA-9 would be one district; the state of CT would be a district unto itself; FL-17, FL-19, FL-26, FL-27, and FL-28 would be one district; FL-20, FL-22, FL-23,FL-24, and FL-25 would be a district; AK, HI, and two coastal CA districts would be one district; the rest of CA would have ten districts; WA would have two districts; OR-1, OR-3, OR-4, OR-5, and OR-6 would be a district; OR-2, and the states of Idaho and Montana would be a district; and so on.