re: #36 NO SMOCKING GUN!

True enough, but the heavy over-representation of white people in the Senate is an enormous bar to making any progress on the problems threatening this country. The easiest way to ameliorate that is to create some new majority-minority states which would each get 2 new Senators.

You don’t need majority-minority states to get minorities in the Senate. After all, the African-American Senators in the 20th and 21st centuries all have represented states that are a majority white. The problem in the Senate is the over-representation of rural states with small and often non-diverse populations.