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In reply to the discussion: Census: Why don't we all just boycott the citizenship question? (assuming there is one) [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,114 posts)is not reality-based, especially when there is a $100 fine associated with failing to answer, and especially when you can peruse the discussions here and find DU who believe immigrants here without having gone through the proper channels should be shipped home and either not allowed to return or forced to stand in the proper line to be here. Individuals who believe the latter have no understanding of the broken immigration system in this country - but they likely include the majority of the US population, and I have certainly encountered them even on DU.
The participation rate would more likely be n the 1-2% range.
As for what the citizenship can facilitate - it will allow them to better gerrymander, which this will allow them to fine tune Republican gerrymandering in both state-level and federal-level representation. Even if they don't get more total seats for the state - it allows them to gerrymander more Republican seats within the state, which shfits the balance of power at the Federal level just as surely as (perhaps more surely than) apportionment.