The purpose of boosting the rural vote isn ' t for the rural people , per se . There are whole industries , farming , mining , and logging being the big examples , that just don ' t exist in cities . If rural votes were equal to urban or suburban votes , these industries vital to the American economy and therefore American wellbeing , would not be as represented . Could you trust a government made up of those from Americas biggest cities , New Yorkers , Angelinos , etc . to even learn about these industries representatives from rural areas , much less represent them when they aren ' t a part of their constituency ? Another point is that weighting votes based on race would be racist , by even the most narrow definitions . All it would do is encourage racial based voting blocs , which could only make racial tensions worse . While a boosted rural vote is biased , and might even be biased towards certain cultural groups , it is fair in the way that it is purely geographic . Anyone can take advantage of this weight by moving there .