Question for you. How far under in population did LA fall short in keeping a 7th seat ? I’m wondering if growth/recovery could get it back for them in 2022. We had a similar situation in TN in 1972 when we dropped from 9 seats to 8 because of slow growth, but made up for it with excellent growth in the ‘70s to recover our 9th seat again by 1982 (one of the swiftest recoveries of a lost seat due to reapportionment in the past century).
By my count, LA needed 421,000 more population to have deserved exactly 7 CDs; with their population, they deserve 6.4 CDs. I guess that if the state reversed its recent net migration habits over the next 10 years that it can regain its 7th CD, but I think that it is extremely unlikely to happen. (BTW, I think that TN is the only state over the past 40 years to lose a seat and recover it the next time.)