Hayek has a better explanation for optimum democracy

Don Boudreaux wonders what would happen if we kept the same ratio of representatives to voters that we had in 1789. He computes the new ratio:

Why Not 1,358 States in the United States?

I do not mean to suggest that such a large number of states or enlargement of the number of politicians sent to Washington is desirable or that such larger numbers would make political matters closer to what they were 225 years ago.  I mean only – inspired by Dick Wagner’s thoughts – to point out that it’s naive to suppose that political institutions that work tolerably well with a polity of one size will work tolerably well if that polity grows to a much larger size.

So why wouldn't a poster at Cafe Hayek use roundaboutness? It takes four steps and more time for a government good to reach me in Fresno, Ca from DC. But the folks in Portland, Maine have something like two steps.