Rural Underrepresentation

While the US electoral system has been criticized for allowing rural voters to wield more power than their numbers democratically justify via the Electoral College, the opposite seems to be true in other aspects of governance and life.

Rural populations—that is, folks who live in less densely populated, often less infrastructurally developed areas—tend to be underrepresented in census data, for instance, because response rates tend to be lower and census-takers have more trouble both finding and reaching people in such areas.