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The Spectacle Blog
The Census Bureau just completed its one duty specifically described in the Constitution — to count the number of people living in the United States and apportion them to determine how many Congressional seats go to each state.
Here’s the breakdown of the 18 states which gained or lost seats.
GAINS:
Arizona +1
Florida +2
Georgia +1
Nevada +1
South Carolina +1
Texas +4
Utah +1
Washington +1
LOSSES:
Illinois -1
Iowa -1
Louisiana: -1
Massachusetts -1
Michigan -1
Missouri -1
New Jersey -1
New York -2
Ohio -2
Pennsylvania -1
Now it’s up to state legislatures to carve up their maps into Congressional districts.
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Spicy Joker| 12.21.10 @ 11:39AM
Looks like Republicans have to lose one in Louisiana.
Bo| 12.21.10 @ 11:43AM
Re: Louisiana.
It depends. LA has some very heavy democratic districts.
Brandon In Baton Rouge| 12.21.10 @ 12:02PM
Joker's correct. The LA delegation is 6-1 Republican and the only Dem-held district right now is LA-2, which will NOT be removed due to redistricting.
LA-2 is made up of metro New Orleans, which is a minority-majority district in a very compact area, as opposed to the heavily gerrymandered ones you see in states like Illinois and South Carolina.
Any attempt to remove that district or dilute the percentage of minorities there would be struck down under the Voting Rights Act.
Citizen KH| 12.21.10 @ 12:15PM
1. Louisiana will keep one district centered in New Orleans, thus it will be a Dem district. Cao was an anomaly.
2. If the Census had counted only citizens, then Louisiana would not have lost a district. Likely CA would have lost more.
IronDioPriest | 12.21.10 @ 11:44AM
I would have thought that the often-cited exodus from California would have resulted in a loss of seats.
Good news that Texas and Florida gain seats at the very moment their legislatures become bolstered with constitutional conservatives.
Eric Cartman| 12.21.10 @ 11:50AM
You're forgetting the influx of illegals to California. Americans out, Mexicans in.
MikeT| 12.21.10 @ 12:06PM
Correct. There was no test for citizenship--or even English speaking ability--for the census. So the millions of illegals in California saved seats for the libtards.
proreason| 12.21.10 @ 11:47AM
The ballot box isn't the only way to vote.
Personally, I vote with my wallet...but the census shows that millions of people have voted with their feet.
You would think this would be a wake-up call to liberals, but of course, nothing can wake them up. Somehow, they will conclude that this proves that liberalism is ascendant.
Dave| 12.21.10 @ 11:52AM
@IronDioPriest, the exodus from CA is real (I'm an original Californian, born and raised, who finally had to leave to find sanity in TX), but remember that the state is large and has a natural population growth just because of new births. The stats I saw the other day showed that CA was still growing, but only very, very slowly (slower than even birth rate alone would suggest, ignoring net inflow/outflow). Essentially, the birth rate was just barely keeping up with the exodus. My guess is that the mid-sized outflow will become a torrent in the next couple years as the reality of the state's fiscal irresponsibility finally hits home. There are still a lot of people in denial there today.
MikeT| 12.21.10 @ 12:09PM
The outflow of productive people in the private sector is turning into a torrent. Government workers will stay, of course, along with the millions of illegals. Should make for an interesting 2011 as taxes are raised yet again on the shrinking number of people who create wealth.
Dave| 12.21.10 @ 12:21PM
Yes, I fully agree with you on all that. Anybody who understands a bank statement has already gotten the message. I have a lot of friends who are staying just because of family ties, but it's finally dawning on people who were in complete denial just a couple of years ago.
Amphipolis| 12.21.10 @ 11:58AM
Isn't this the first census since California statehood that did not add to Golden State representation?
A significant trend-breaker, this is.
Dave| 12.21.10 @ 12:22PM
Yes, I think you're right.
MikeBee| 12.21.10 @ 12:28PM
I can't wait for California to fall apart. I'm originally from SoCal, but have lived in Michigan since 1989. I would love to retire in SoCal, but am waiting for prices of everything, esp. housing, to drop significantly. CA's impending liberal-led doom will greatly help to facilitate this.
Dave| 12.21.10 @ 12:36PM
Going from CA to MI is a bit of "out of the frying pan and into the fire," right? I mean, housing is cheap in MI already, but only because it has already all-but fallen apart. For what it's worth, I have family outside Detroit and can't understand why they are staying.
FScarn| 12.21.10 @ 12:03PM
My state, Massachusetts, is, hard as this is to believe, one of the original 13 colonies. One of the 13 which stood up to the then monstrous British government which had defined unlimited government. This state like others of the original 13 (NY, NJ jump to mind) has morphed into that which was once detested.
MA congressional seats will drop from 10 to 9. In my view it is still 9 too many.
luvntheBIGsites| 12.21.10 @ 12:03PM
The census stat that I would really love to see is how many patriots wrote in "AMERICAN" in the Race/Other box. Everyone I know participated in that little ditty... even a few liberal friends. Maybe someone on the TAS staff could hook us up. FOIA request anyone?
ConstitutionalDave| 12.21.10 @ 12:09PM
That would be interesting to see. I did the same. I actually think I only filled in the number of people, names and ages - and of course American in the race/Other Box....
motionview| 12.21.10 @ 12:12PM
Any doubts that the Obama Justice Department will make sure that Democrat seat loss is minimized by selective application of the "majority minority" Voting Rights Act rules?
Tina Ferrer| 12.21.10 @ 12:14PM
They are saving the best for last with California. As forensic accountants for the State as well as business, I can tell you we’ve seen some 4800 small to medium businesses leave S. California alone since September 2010 and it’s not stopping, it’s increasing at a startling rate. Other States (New Mexico) are successfully offering to fund infrastructure payments, tax incentives, business locations and human resources for almost a turnkey solution should California business owners decide to leave and they are especially technology companies, energy companies and MFG companies. You folks who live in California will notice very soon that the red light will be given every time the State requests money going forward. Regardless if it’s California’s $500 billion in unfunded pension benefits and liabilities or the $36 billion being demanded by the CTA or CSEA for Schools which will be the second $36 billion in four years paid to them with taxpayer money. There is no way to pay for this without money as our State tax revenue falls 18%
If I were hired today as a State employee, I'd get my deal in writing along with a personal promissory note. Those that were promised and currently enjoy their pension and benefit retirements have nowhere to go when they’re pensions are cut my 35% and are forced to pay 20% for their own healthcare and 90% for their family’s healthcare. These good folks believed government would take care of them as is the case with my parents but the budgets are being created only for study with none looking good in a best case scenario at this point and union folks will have to accept the realities of what is happening, at least in California.
Dave| 12.21.10 @ 12:26PM
Wow, that's telling. 4800 since Sept of this year, just for So. Cal alone. Yikes! It doesn't surprise me that anybody in the energy sector would be getting out with California passing its own carbon emissions law. They're so frickin' dumb. The "green jobs" blather will be exposed for the fraud it really is.
Charlie| 12.21.10 @ 12:27PM
Looks like 11 Dem seats and one Repub lost...
11 Repub seats and one Dem gained...
Ouch! That swing has gotta hurt. It alone would put the Repubs up in the 113th as much as the Dems were in the late, unlamented 111th.
Eric| 12.21.10 @ 1:26PM
That's insightful, and it doesn't even account for redistricting!
JP| 12.21.10 @ 1:38PM
Overall for the nation, the population grew by 9 million souls. And with the median age inching up every year, this is more an indication of longer live spans than any significant increase. In reality, the US population grew at its slowest pace since the Census began tracking population. And as far a California is concerned, this is the first time since the 1940s that it failed to add any new House seats. Yes, the illegals and legals are moving in -about at the same rate residents are moving out.
And New England, which has the highest per capita rate of abortion continues to lose people. Utah, which has the highest TFR (Total Fertility Rate), has grown 35% since census. Texas, of course, continues to attract new residents from all over the nation and the world.
Casey Abell| 12.21.10 @ 1:55PM
"Overall for the nation, the population grew by 9 million souls."
Not even close. The overall population growth, assuming the median estimate for 2010, was 27 million since 2000. The percentage growth was about 9% for the decade. That is the lowest in the U.S. since the depression decade 1930-40. But it still compares favorably to most other industrialized countries.
Casey Abell| 12.21.10 @ 2:05PM
One comment on redistricting in Texas. While the state will gain four seats overall, it may be tough for even the overwhelmingly GOP legislature to draw the lines to their liking. A lot of that population growth comes from traditionally Hispanic and Democratic areas in south Texas.
But you never know. The Hispanic vote in Texas may be trending Republican. Rick Perry got 38% of Hispanic voters last month, up from 31% in 2006. It's not out of the question that the GOP could reach rough parity in the Texas Hispanic vote over the next 20-30 years.