Posted on 07/06/2007 6:36:39 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Tax cuts would be a good start to keeping people here. The higher the taxes, the fewer the good jobs and less reason to stay.
At least the water is open.
At http://www.census.gov/popest/datasets.html
are the latest estimates.
If the 2006 estimates are near right, then MN 8 would get the 435th seat. However there were 4 years left in the decade as of the estimate, so MN would be hard pressed to hold the seat.
It appears GA has already gained a seat (not at the expense of MN yet) — it would have an outside shot at a 2nd...NC and SC appear to be holding even....maybe an outside shot at a seat.
FL looks like +1 already, TX +2, and CA at 0 but all 3 are close to another seat. IL and MI are at 0 and are looking at -1.
Its about damn time that California doesn’t gain any seats.
Yes. But after January 14th, it doesn’t matter.
Agreed. CA has been gaining seats since 1850! And if we could just get Congress to pass a law providing that only legal permanent residents are counted as “inhabitants” for purposes of apportionment (i.e., including U.S. residents who are temporarily overseas, but excluding illegal aliens and foreigners with tourist visas), CA would actually lose a couple of seats.
If I recall the last time they redrew congressional lines there was talk about combining minneapolis and st. paul but there was lots of objections cause then the inner cities would be underrepresented....or some such gobbly gook. so they expanded those two districts into the suburbs then. I’m sure that’s what they’d do again.
That outstate thingy that was started by the idiots in the media has always bugged me. Makes it sound like anyone who lives outside the twin cities area really isn’t a part of the state.
OK rant off. LOL
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