I thought the population loss was in Western Massachusetts but anecdotally, our many little s*!thole cities (New Bedford, Fall River, Brockton, Lynn, Lawrence, etc.) also seem to be in decline population wise. Also, in Pennsylvania, can’t the GOP focus in on the bad areas in Philly and Pitt to construct a few 70% Left areas, leaving the rest of Pennsylvania for the GOP?
If you pull up that USCB link, the Census 2000 pop. for MA was 6349097, making a seat in MA equal to roughly 634910 constituents.
The 2009 estimate (yes, it’s just an estimate), is 6593587, making a seat in MA equal to roughly 732621 constituents.
If their county-by-county estimates are right, then Middlesex has lost 0.25 seats, Essex 0.13, Norfolk 0.11, Bristol 0.09.
I figure the 4th, 9th, and 10th become 2 seats.
You can, yeah.
The problem is right now there’s only 3 Dems in Philadelphia area territory, and there’s a lot of leftist population there. Too much to swallow with just 3 Dems.