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applegrove

(118,008 posts)
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:47 PM Jan 2018

Potential citizenship question in 2020 Census could shift power to rural America

By Michael Scherer at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/potential-citizenship-question-in-2020-census-could-shift-power-to-rural-america/2018/01/23/c4e6d2c6-f57c-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?utm_term=.1de17ab4c49e

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A request by the Justice Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census could shift the nation’s balance of political power from cities to more rural communities over the next decade and give Republicans a new advantage drawing electoral boundaries.

Population numbers produced by the census are used in many ways, notably to draw political districts and distribute government funds across the country. Adding questions to the decennial survey is usually a controversial and difficult process because of the potential to affect both of those functions — either by suppressing census participation or by creating new ways to define populations.

All of it has prompted advocates for Hispanic communities to accuse the Justice Department of wanting to produce a less accurate count in 2020.

“I think the main motivation is to secure an undercount,” said Tom Saenz, the president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. “Texas is a very red state. They know that is not going to be the case for very much longer.”


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Potential citizenship question in 2020 Census could shift power to rural America (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2018 OP
Yep,. white supremacy is what is happening. Sick but true Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1
SHIFT power to them? What was the 2016 election, if not a disproportionate ceding of power LisaM Jan 2018 #2
Yup, my thoughts exactly. Nt MANative Jan 2018 #3
This whole thing is about ignorant bigoted white men retaining power JI7 Jan 2018 #4

LisaM

(27,758 posts)
2. SHIFT power to them? What was the 2016 election, if not a disproportionate ceding of power
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:53 PM
Jan 2018

to rural America?

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