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WP: Why your state might lose or gain clout in Congress after the census is released
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/how-apportionment-works/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter*Subscription Required* (But maybe the longer link will trick the WP site into believing that you're clicking a subscriber link in your newsletter.)
Why your state might lose or gain clout in Congress after the census is released
Rhode Island is likely to draw the short straw in
the once-a-decade reshuffling of U.S. House seats
Rhode Island, now the most overrepresented state in the U.S. House, is likely about to become the most underrepresented.
In the next two weeks, the government will release state populations from the 2020 Census, and estimates suggest Rhode Islanders will lose one of their two seats in the chamber.
This is congressional reapportionment, the once-a-decade reshuffling of the 435 House seats among the states to adjust for population changes. Some states will gain clout, while others will lose. Even after the changes, House members from some states will still represent a starkly different number of people than others.
To understand why there’s so much inequality in the population-based chamber, imagine a country like the United States but much smaller. It has only two states, Bluetah, population 60, and Yelloware, population 20.
Rhode Island is likely to draw the short straw in
the once-a-decade reshuffling of U.S. House seats
Rhode Island, now the most overrepresented state in the U.S. House, is likely about to become the most underrepresented.
In the next two weeks, the government will release state populations from the 2020 Census, and estimates suggest Rhode Islanders will lose one of their two seats in the chamber.
This is congressional reapportionment, the once-a-decade reshuffling of the 435 House seats among the states to adjust for population changes. Some states will gain clout, while others will lose. Even after the changes, House members from some states will still represent a starkly different number of people than others.
To understand why there’s so much inequality in the population-based chamber, imagine a country like the United States but much smaller. It has only two states, Bluetah, population 60, and Yelloware, population 20.
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