> I've heard a great argument from a conservative friend: it prevents densely populated cities like LA + NY for speaking on the needs/wants of the entire countr

> I've heard a great argument from a conservative friend: it prevents densely populated cities like LA + NY for speaking on the needs/wants of the entire country. It actually does the opposite. If you split up California into a bunch of smaller states, then some of those would vote one way, and others would vote the other way meaning they would effectively be cancelling each other out. This would weaken its power.