This is something that eventually (make that SOON) is going to need to be addressed. Right now, as it stands, big cities have the authority to lord over vast swaths of rural areas solely because of the way state lines are drawn.
It used to be that state governments were built upon the premise of a balance between population and geographic interests. A metropolitan area could not run roughshod over the rest of a state solely because they had at least 50%+1 of the population. The Supreme Court destroyed that in the 1960s. One man, one vote, they cried. In the meantime, they effectively created a whole swath of territory where it was more like "one man, no votes" and effectively handed power to the populations who could reproduce the fastest and retain their children longer. So now we have places like Chicago, Baltimore and New York, where they decide that their rural underlings are hindrances, and they impose policies trying to force them out to solidify their own power.
