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Originally Posted by JEQuidam
Really? OK.
How many Greens do we have in Congress?
How many asians, blacks and women? Is it the same percentages as can be found in the population?
How many devout Christians? How many Jews? How many atheists?
How many farmers?
How many professors?
How many are from the middle class?
...and so forth.
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Drug addicts? GED holders? Criminal sexual devia---
Wait, don't answer that last one.
How many were homeschooled? How many have children that are serving in the US military? How many were raised by single parents?
Some small amount of parity with the diversity of the US population in many - but not all - respects, would be added just statistically by upping the size of the House. But based on the items I just mentioned (and a few I quoted), you'll never see a truly Representative Congress in our lifetimes.
And at the end of the day I doubt "the country club" would change much. Perhaps without a college degree and making <$75k per year as head of household with three kids, you could get elected. In, say, North Dakota. In Manhattan, not so much. It's still going to go right back to who has privilege and advantage, and who doesn't.
The faces and backgrounds might shift slightly, but other serious reforms - not just term limitations - would have to take place in conjunction with or prior to scaling back to 50k per district. Something completely off-the-wall batshit crazy like, I dunno,
very low spending caps on any election campaign.
But really, here's my $64,000 question:
How would the resizing districts and realigning the house address the issue of roughly 10 to 12 million undocumented/illegal alien residents of the US?
I'll fully concede that I'm not the sharpest bulb in the shed when discussing politics; I also haven't (yet) read up at TTO.org. So if this was addressed there, bear with me.