Posted on 12/25/2009 10:15:03 PM PST by Lorianne
Synopsis: 6 Southern states will gain seats in the US House of Reps after 2010 census. Texas will gain the most.
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Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina.
Arizona being considered part of the south is plausible given a civil war battle was fought S. of Casa Grande but I’m not so sure about Nevada.
Washington is the only solidly blue state gaining a seat.
Louisiana is the only solidly red state losing a seat.
California does not gain seats for the first time in forever.
NY and Mass continue to lose.
Utah gains the seat they almost had last time.
McCain gains 12 electoral votes without picking up any additonal states.
Overall good news.
If I had the means to move south, I woulda gone years ago.
Just what we need...more congressmen.
whoopie
Many states lose seats. Mostly north east
Oops, I forgot Utah and Washington. Definitley not “South”
ACORN will fix that.
Are you serious?
There are 435 congressmen.
They get reapportioned.
They don’t add congressmen.
They’ll redo the formula.
Half your representatives will be figured like they figure senators. The other half based on population. The 13 original colonies will each get a bonus 5 electorals for being the first states. Each state gets a bonus electoral for approving cap and trade and a bonus for approving socialized health care, and a bonus for appointing UN officials to permanent positions in their state legislatures. DC gets a bonus 50 electorals, one for each state in the union.
Good thing I don’t work for obama, I got all kinds of dirty rotten low down ideas.
I believe there is a congressman for each electoral vote. If you give a state more electoral votes, you give them more congressmen. Well, not senators. That number is fixed at two per state.
Louisiana will likely lose it from a Left area though. It will be nice to have the GOP redistricting Georgian and Texas this time around.
For a Freeper it should be common knowledge.
Come on, everyone here is a politics nerd/junkie.
Or they become one! ;^)
Louisiana lost a seat because aproximatley 400k liberal democrats left the state after Katrina.
Louisiana goes frome being the most liberal deep South state to the most conservative(probably).
But that will take years to shake out.
Average folk not too rabid about politics still have a favorable view of the Landrieus.
Even though there should be a staunch conservative in that seat we Baby Killer Mary because of her surname.
You have it backwards.
I think the whole gist of the phenomenon is that the South is where the means are.
Are they "conservative" or "want Obamacare and more"?
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