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[–] pembo210 2 points (+2|-0)

Where California now has two seats in the 100-person U.S. Senate, the three states would have six seats in a 104-member chamber. That would dilute the power of other states and increase the power of what used to be a single state if its six senators banded together on various issues.

this worries me a bit

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

It would worry me more if they were just handing the current political establishment the extra seats. The intent - as far as I can tell by reading - is to divide the state into regions with political similarities. It looks like we'd wind up with one red state, one blue state, and one that could go either way.