California says census missed 1.5 million residents (want more in their begging bowl)

Los Angeles Times ^ | December 24, 2010 | Seema Mehta

[Cincinatus' Wife]

California officials estimate that the U.S. Census Bureau failed to count 1.5 million of the state's residents, a discrepancy that if true could cost the state billions of dollars in federal aid over the next decade and perhaps an increase in its representation in Congress.

[metesky]

I didn't mean to imply that you implied. :O)

I just think that congressional districts of from 500,000 to 750,000 are rediculous and that that formula (435 reps) leaves most of us unrepresented.

Take my state, Maine, as an example. In 1820 when Maine became a state, detached from Massachsetts, it enjoyed seven (7) congressional districts with a total population of 298,335. Today with a population almost five times that, we have two (2) reps.

Are the 1,300,000 citizens of Maine better represented in districts of 650,000 or were they better represented with districts averaging about 43,000?

See where I'm going?

NO TAXATION WITHOUT ADEQUATE REPRESENTATION!

[skimbell]

"California officials estimate that the U.S. Census Bureau failed to count 1.5 million of the state's residents..."

Yeah, and those are just the ones that snuck in this week.

[2harddrive]

The illegals did not WANT to be counted!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I once heard that California has 4 House seats MORE than it should have because illegal aliens were included in previous census counts.

[John123]

It cuts away at our share of the $400 billion a year that the federal government doles out to states.

That's pretty arrogant... and totally clueless of where the money is coming from.

[Panzerlied]

“FDR seems to have been the most pernicious and evil forced unleashed on our land.”

That says it all.

[wita]

...and as for senators, two were mandated when their job was to protect states rights, now that they are just one more representative of the people, why isn’t one sufficient, and subtract that one from the representative number of house seats, reducing the cost of government, and the number of mouths in the senate.

[org.whodat]

Sure and residents should be legal citizens.

[B4Ranch]

Do you have a Source for this thread?

[tbw2]

That may be the source of their missing 1.5 million.

[prairiebreeze]

Is there a link, CW? thanks

[montag813]

The Founders neglected to put a bar on lawsuits against the Census in the Constitution. They didn’t realize that the nation would end up beholden to douchebag lawyers.

[mia]

Well, how do they determine the number of residents in their state? Do they just take a number out of the air? "So, let see, I think we have this number."

Don't you have to prove the number of residents?

Why can't all the other states do the same thing? So much for the census.

[Carry_Okie]

On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released national and state population figures that declared California to have 37.3 million residents,

I remember when it was 12 million, and I'm not yet 60.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/24/local/la-me-1224-census-20101224

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It looks like they’ve moved the article. Interesting.

It was here:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/24/local/la-me-1224-census-20101224
But that story has been abbreviated.

NOW I find it HERE.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1224-census-20101224,0,6188904.story

[tubebender]

Eureka city schools have lost 45% of their enrollment and closed 3 elementary and 2 Jr High Schools in the past 10 to 15 years. Humboldt county schools are hurting also as the logging industries have been brought their knees by the Marxist green Red movement..

[reaganaut]

People are fleeing CA in droves, espeically conservatives. We left CA last year, my Sister in Law and my mother and father in law left this year, several of my friends moved the past couple of years.

It isn’t safe, the taxes are high (and getting higher), the gun laws are bad and I am sick and tired of seeing illegals fly Mexican flags.

I took my mother out there last month (she winters out there) and I realized just how ‘over’ CA I was. Not even homesick (born and raised there) and couldn’t wait to get back to America.

And it wouldn’t surprise me in the least that CA thinks that there are more people then what was counted. They think that snowbirds are residents, illegals are residents and for some reason think my husband and I still live there.

[Publius6961]

Reps are based on population, so if the population goes down, the number of reps go down; that doesn't translate to a corresponding increase in an equal number of reps in another state, unless that state has coincidentally increased in population.

Not quite accurate. The total number has been fixed by law at 435.
Any state that "loses" must create one or more seats elsewhere. That's the great "proportional" math after each census.

[who knows what evil?]

People are fleeing CA in droves, espeically conservatives. We left CA last year, my Sister in Law and my mother and father in law left this year, several of my friends moved the past couple of years.

Same situation in New England...people leaving...Massachusetts losing a Congressman.