The Senate may have been an effective manner of countering the will of the majority at the time of ratification. The founders were rightly concerned about citizens being more loyal to their home state and prejudiced against individuals from other states.
But regional factionalism died. I can't pinpoint when, but it did. The Civil War helped, and so did New Deal and the rise of the national economy, and so did the Civil Rights movement. Today, we are a uniform nation and not a federation of sovereign states.
The Senate was designed to stop majorities that wanted to harm people from a different region. We don't have that problem anymore. The problem we have reflects the nation we have. Our nation has specific problems that affect everyone equally, but which we differ on how to address. It really is about politics and not region.
But the Senate doesn't reflect that.
Eh, this post is half-baked. I can't seem to get it out.
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