every single one of those areas trends blue voting heavily democratic for state legislators there is there any question that will hurt democrats politically? >> if you want to answer that question, you're basically accepting the premise people will be too afraid to fill out the census because of this question being added. i'm not sure that is correct. i don't think it's the presence of the question that makes someone afraid. if someone were here illegally and fearful of papers, they were going to make the decision to be afraid before scanning an the questions on the sheet. i also think it's important to remember in this debate, don, it is illegal for the census bureau to share any of this information with another agency. that is against federal law. democrats are trying to make folks afraid and trying to generate outrage but leaving out core facts here. i think frankly maybe blowing this out of proportion. >> go ahead, joan. >> the core fact is bipartisan