Highland Deac
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Also have to keep in mind that the Atlanta MSA is 5.8MM(and growing at 12% per year) and GA's total population is only just above 10MM, but all the sticks counties in the south get their representative in the house as well.
In elections where it is a state wide popular vote, like Governor, the ATL people are starting to outweigh the rural southern rednecks. However, when each hovel gets its own rep in the house, then they have a bigger voice in state legislation, just like the effect of the electoral college at the natl level.
This is slowly but steadily happening in NC too. Virtually all of the population and economic growth in NC is centered in a few urban areas - Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Greensboro, Wilmington, Asheville, etc. That's where the Democratic Party's base in NC is now. The GOP dominates the rural areas, but they're steadily shrinking in population, or at best are stagnant. Eventually we're going to reach a tipping point in statewide elections. The legislature, though, will probably continue to over-represent rural areas for a good deal longer, unfortunately.