Please remember, 6 New England States, with 12 Senate votes take up less land than

[robo50]

Montana, Texas, Alaska, California, and not much more land than: Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada,..

Less people for all six states than NY state, California, about the same number of voters as Texas.

Why do I say this? well, Kennedy represented all 6 states, all 50 states, really.....lived in a state with 2% of the US population if you only consider Mass, if you add 4 million from CT, 1 million from RI, 1 mill from NH 1mill from ME, 1 million from RI. a half a million or so from VT.......all of those would be less than the population of NY state, less than 1/3 of the population of California.

Let's make sure we put this in perspective....but remember also, that the Kennedy's are ALWAYS bigger than reality...these people are the ones that get things done...

He's the best guy Massachusetts has had as a Senator since before ANY of us were born, I think John Adams or some time back there.

I love this man, I love liberals who do NOT always agree, and love knowing I was lucky enough to live in Mass for all of the Kennedy years, from when JFK was a Senator, to today.

[OHdem10]

1. Six Senators from those land masses and trees but very few people

(Red states) are writing the Health Care Bill. Some states
have 630 to 640 thousand people.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Acreage doesn't vote.

The thing that pisses me off is that people from red states like Wyoming and Alaska have WAY more representation than people in, say, Massachusetts. Their ratio of people-to-Senator is very low. That always seems so unfair, that these dumbass fuckwit Repuke Senators from Nebraska or Utah have disproportionate power.

[zbdent]

3. I don't remember "One Acre, One Vote" being in the Constitution ...

although I do remember that for a while, landowners only were allowed to vote ... but blacks and women weren't ...

[mikekohr]

5. Nor were Native Americans allowed to vote, in some cases as late as the 1960's

While being the most economically depressed ethnic group in the country, Indian people during the first World War bought war bonds in far higher proportions than did the general populace. 77).


A grateful Congress bestowed citizenship on the Native People in 1924. New Mexico and Arizona refused to acknowledge this act and did not recognize citizenship of Native People until much later, after a similar dramatic contribution by Native People to the nations war efforts in WW II. Arizona extended the right to vote to Native People in 1948 and New Mexico denied Native People the right to vote until the year 1962.

In 1964 two Navajo men Monroe Jymm and James Atcitty, were elected to the state legislature in New Mexico. Both were welcomed with motions to unseat them. After a long legal battle they were able to validate their right to serve as state legislators. Later, another Navajo man, was barred from taking his elected seat in the state legislature in New Mexico because he appeared in traditional dress. The governor was forced to apologize.

In 1956 the state of Utah revived a state statute that prohibited Native People that resided on reservations from voting. The law was upheld by the State Supreme Court. Only after howls of protest did the legislature retreat and repeal the law.
"Literacy Laws" were exploited to deny many Native people the right to vote until the middle 1960's.

-International Brotherhood Days-
http://www.brotherhooddays.com/interestingfacts.html

mike kohr

[zbdent]

4. Let's let Alaska get Federal dollars based on population ...

[bullwinkle428]

6. This is Sarah Palin logic at work - "I govern the biggest state in the U.S.A.!"

Sorry, dear - caribou and wolves don't vote. (If only.)

[high density]

7. Have you heard of the House of Representatives?

We're aware of how the Senate is partitioned.