With senators that's by design. But there are also issues with representatives, and I'm not sure how it came to be and if it can be solved.
With senators that's by design. But there are also issues with representatives, and I'm not sure how it came to be and if it can be solved.
The problem with representatives happened as a result of the Reapportionment Act of 1929 [1], which capped the house at 435 members.
tl;dr: the Republican party recognized that demographic shifts were going to make them a permanent minority in the House, so they refused to re-apportion the number of house members after the 1920 census, then in 1929 decided to cap the number of representatives permanently.
The simple fix is to repeal the law and apportion seats properly, likely by significantly growing the size of the House.
However, in typical Democrat fashion, they never bothered repealing the act and re-apportioning properly once they had power to do so.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929
How robust would the reapportioned seats be against extreme political gerrymanders? It seems like packing and cracking would still work.