Newly released documents show that top career officials at the Census Bureau had drafted a list of complaints about political interference in the 2020 count.
How America Has Changed Since the First Census in 1790
By Diana Shishkina, Stacker News
On 5/13/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
The U.S. Census Bureau announced April 26 that the country s population between 2010 and 2020 had experienced its second-slowest rate of growth in U.S. history, topping out at 331 million people. Additionally, political power was slated to move south and west from the Northeast and Midwest, with Texas gaining two congressional seats and Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon each gaining one. Losing one seat each were California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Conducting a census and counting the American population every 10 years has been a practice since the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1790. Besides being a growing source of economic, demographic, and social information about the nation s people and being used to determine how many Congressional seats and electoral votes each state receives, the qu
The result was that red states netted fewer seats in the U.S. House over the next decade than had been anticipated.
The authors acknowledged that it’s only circumstantial evidence but said the lopsided nature of the changes in favoring Democratic states is ringing “alarm bells.”
“Was the Census Bureau count rigged?” Mr. Moore and Mr. Antoni said. “Was it manipulated by the Biden team to hand more seats to the Democrats and to get more money federal spending is often allocated based on population for the blue states?”
The December estimate was based on projections from the 2010 census, birth and death records and the American Community Survey, an ongoing census of a small sample of people each year.