 In addition, he believed there should be reapportionment in the House related to the voting population of southern states, rather than the general population as enumerated in the census.Such reapportionment was authorized by the Constitution and would reflect reality, so that the South should not get credit for people and voters it had disfranchised.Tinkham detailed how outsized the South's representation was related to the total number of voters in each state, compared to other states with the same number of representatives