Brilliant. Even in the senate, you can argue that low-population states like Wyoming shouldn't get 2 seats, or that Wyoming needs 2 seats to maintain control of its interests. Periodically redrawing state boundaries sidesteps this whole debate/dilemma.<p>Can this idea be further generalized? Minorities can be oppressed or powerful; strive to so intertwine motivations that minorities are eliminated.<p>But with some caveats. <a href="http://akkartik.name/blog/2010-01-23-21-24-35-soc" rel="nofollow">http://akkartik.name/blog/2010-01-23-21-24-35-soc</a>