Isn’t reapportioning districts the same as determining where the pork goes?
Maybe they did boil it down to the lowest common denominator for the idiots out there...
My point is that the Feds were not pork distibutors when the requirement for the census was established. The rationale was and remains voter distibution. Largesse is a gangster rationale.
No, its to determine the size of the state’s delegation in the House of Representatives. (cf: Article 1, Section 2).