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Posted on 04/27/2021 8:37:37 AM PDT by Beave Meister
Texas, Florida and North Carolina are among the states that will gain congressional seats based on new population data from the U.S. census, a shift that will boost Republican chances of recapturing the U.S. House of Representatives from Democrats in next year’s midterm elections.
Blue states losing a seat = California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania.
Red states losing a seat = Ohio, West Virginia.
Blue states gaining a seat = Oregon, Colorado.
Red states gaining seats = Montana, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas is gaining two seats.
Summary = Net gain of +3 seats for red states.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizenfreepress.com ...
True... A new citizen from NYS asked me why aren’t the school the greatest and we need to get more money. I told her, we moved to get away from taxes. If you need to spend more money in taxes, move back! She did complain about food prices which I do agree with her. Publix is the King here... even in the middle of nowhere, there’s a Publix!
NYS was 89 people from losing a seat.
Just read this:
“Republicans control the mapmaking process in key states like Florida, North Carolina and Texas, where there are new House seats to be created amid booming suburban populations. The G.O.P. is also likely to eliminate a Democratic district in Ohio, which will lose one seat.
At the same time, Democratic lawmakers in Illinois and New York are poised to eliminate Republican seats as they draw new maps.
And several key states with changes coming to their maps — California, Colorado, Michigan and Montana — have independent commissions tasked with determining new legislative boundaries on a nonpartisan or bipartisan basis.
The 2021 redistricting process will also be the first time since 1961 that a raft of mostly Southern states will not have their maps subject to a preclearance process from the Justice Department, following the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The court last month heard arguments that could undo more elements of the act that would impede the ability to sue to block new maps.
Without having to seek preclearance, Republicans in states where they control all levers of government — Florida, Georgia and Texas, to name three — will have far more influence on the new maps than they have had in past reapportionment cycles.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/26/us/politics/congress-house-seats-census.html
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California may have lost a seat, but Californians didn’t. They just moved to Oregon and took their seat with them.
Evetually, Texas, too.
Thank you
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