There is a real urban versus rural divide in this country, but the Senate isn’t designed to favor rural voters. It’s designed to favor white people. As the country rushes toward becoming a majority-minority nation, the Senate acts as the ultimate refuge for white power. That’s because people of color are not evenly spread throughout the country, and because the Senate is, by its nature, a “winner take all” system. As long as white people make up a plurality of voters in a state, and as long as white people stick together in that state, white people get to control both of the state’s allotted
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