Full because it is exactly opposite to the sun.
The wounded knee was a massacre, hence the name “wounded knee massacre”
This is a system set up by the founding fathers, people would want to stick with the passed down, original tradition.
It also gives low-population states a say in federal government where higher population states might overwhelm them, if its possible to that is. Plus, in my opinion at least, popular vote is pretty much useless
Once they got it they still where not given the same education as white boys