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Unfortunately no because in 1929 the House of Representatives got capped at 435. For example, a Congressman from California represented ~~494,709 people while one from New Hampshire represented 3,448 people in the year 2020.~~ Those must have been state congress numbers or something, idk, real numbers would be 750k cali and 700k NH, probably better examples out there for large differences.
Edit: these numbers are not for federal congressmen, clearly. Correction made.
NH only has 2 congresspeople, so one per 700,000
Yeah I must have used a bad source, might have been state congress numbers.
Maybe time for a Port of Oakland tea party but with... Oh wait.. we don't need imports from the rest of the country and should just stop paying taxes without representation or something
I'm not an advocate of secession under normal circuimstances, what with the looming threat of WWIII if ever the power scale tipped against the USA, but it's especially a bad idea when California is covered in fire.