Posted on 12/21/2010 12:51:14 PM PST by neverdem
The U.S. Census Bureau today announced its long-awaited final population and reapportionment numbers. The official population of the U.S. as of April 1, 2010 was 308,745,538, up from 281,421,906 in 2000. The Northeast grew 3.2 percent, the Midwest grew 3.9 percent, the South grew 14.3 percent and the West grew by 13.8 percent. Overall, it was the slowest growth in the country since the 1930s.
The apportionment winners were: Texas (4 seats), Florida (2 seats), Arizona (1 seat), Georgia (1 seat), Nevada (1 seat), South Carolina (1 seat), Utah (1 seat), Washington (1 seat). The losers were: New York (2 seats), Ohio (2 seats), Illinois (1 seat), Iowa (1 seat), Louisiana (1 seat), Massachusetts (1 seat), Michigan (1 seat), Missouri (1 seat), New Jersey (1 seat), Pennsylvania (1 seat)...
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Now the left will redouble their efforts to do away with the electoral college.
The dems are going to demand a recount.
You can't get rid of the electoral college without amending the Constitution. Good luck with getting three quarters of the states to agree. They have a scheme of states pledging their electoral votes according to the winner of the national popular vote, but it hasn't advanced that far yet, IIRC, less than a dozen states are amenable to that.
“Overall, it was the slowest growth in the country since the 1930s.”
Genesis 9:7 people!
People are getting very selfish
Actually, the “national popular vote” crowd thinks they can make an end run on the constitution. Figures, eh? Leftists end running the Constitution, AGAIN.
This is largely based on the 14% west & south number. This is not a great thing.
So hopefully the can redistrict Louise Slaughter out of office. He district is gerrymandered to be a minority seat for her lilly white arse.
Remember how Obama hired ACORN to make sure the census results were skewed? Well, I guess he wasn’t too successful.
It’s selfish to have too many kids! It’s selfish not to have enough! Egads, is there a right number, somewhere in the middle, that unselfish people have?
So now we know that there are 27 million more illegals than in 2000. What a country!
“Actually, the “national popular vote” crowd thinks they can make an end run on the constitution. Figures, eh? Leftists end running the Constitution, AGAIN.”
Yeah - didn’t some states recently pass legislation that they would give all of their Electoral votes to whomever wins the popular vote nation wide? Or did I read that wrong....
That’s going to go over really well with the local voters, if so.
Why is this so great? On the positive side, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina and Utah are pure red states, at least on the presidential level. But Louisiana is red and lost a seat. And Washington is deep blue.
Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, Iowa and Missouri are swing states and doesn’t it matter who exactly migrated there?
The only pure blue state losing out are New York, Illinois, Mass., Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvanis, although I must say that Pennsylvania had a red 2010.
It’s not selfish to have as many kids as you can support.
Only leftists say it’s selfish to have too many children. No one reasonable is saying that.
A few states are ignoring the electoral college now.
Sorry, neverdem - didn’t read closely enough. You addressed these guys.
I thought they were very close to getting their magic “270” last I heard.
If they ever pull that off, we can finally dispense with the obsolete notion that these are states (where the fedgov is the servant of the states) -- let's just acknowledge reality by calling them provinces (where the states are the servants of the fedgov).
We’re not replacing ourselves, thus the illegal immigration problem. I think the number is 3 kids per married couple to have replacement.
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