California has 39 million people and two senators. Wyoming has a few dozen people and two senators.

[Genki Hikari]

96. Another solution would be for blue cities or counties

In red states to become their own states.

Blue Houston by itself has a higher population than 15 of the states. That's not counting Harris County as a whole, or, say, a state combining Harris and Ft Bend counties--the most likely alliance in that area.

The city/county governments of these massive population centers are likewise bigger than anything those smaller states have, so the transition to statehood would be quite easy to pull off.

We'd not only get the Senators we need, but also could smash the gerrymandering the r thugs have done to dilute Democratic votes for Congress, too. Those new blue city-states would get to draw their own maps that could better represent their population, at long last.

Example: Right now, a State of Phoenix would get 2 Congressional reps based on the city population by itself. Go for a State of Maricopa, and they'd get 6-7 reps that they could divvy up how they wanted--not how the AZ legislature wants their representation to look like.

Major cities (or some combo of cities, counties or metro areas) becoming their own states would be all win for the Democrats, because it would return the government to people, rather than power derived from acreage with anachronistic boundaries.

There'd have to be some limits on who could declare statehood--say, the population must be at least as large as Wyoming or whoever the least populated state is at the time, and maybe something about a potential state having a local government budget that isn't impossibly in the red. And of course voter approval.

But other than those ground rules, it could work, and almost always in favor of the Ds.