Sorry, Delaware, America’s most underrepresented state

Oliver K. Ernst, Ph.D.
Practical coding
Published in
8 min readNov 12, 2023

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Congratulations for losing the state population lottery, 70 years and counting.

Some of the smallest details in our democracy can have some of the largest impacts. In this story, we dive into apportionment for the U.S. House of Representatives. We’ll use US Census data to show that Delaware has been the most underrepresented state in the US, 70 years and counting.

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