to be entirely accurate it’d make the entire house less proportional, simply as a consequence of the minimum-one per state and hard cap on the number of reps. 40 million extra population has to share the existing 435 seats, and that’s before you gerrymander it
they’d do it even better with canada, give em even less proportional house representation
California and Canada have the same population give or take ~1 million depending on who does the estimate/count
to be entirely accurate it’d make the entire house less proportional, simply as a consequence of the minimum-one per state and hard cap on the number of reps. 40 million extra population has to share the existing 435 seats, and that’s before you gerrymander it