The whole point of the house is for each person to have their local Congressperson to represent them in the federal government. That’s why districts are supposed to be small and compact, so you are close to your representation. Also why each house member wasn’t supposed to represent more than 30,000 people. He was supposed to be the guy you wouldn’t be afraid to write if you needed something done at the federal level.
That’s gone out the window in the modern era. Representatives have more like three quarters of a million people to worry about. A number so large that they end up divorced from local issues. Plus their districts are spread all over the place so there’s no clear population to represent. It’s a load of enclaves spread across the state. It’s arguable that the House of Representative’s original business model simply doesn’t scale to a country with 350 million people in it, but we are being poorly served by pretending that it still works instead of reworking it. Maybe some kind of two tier solution where everybody gets a local rep, but we don’t send all 1,200 to Washington at once.
