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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe U.S. census estimates it missed more than a half-million Texans during 2020 count
Greg had money to help fix the census.
Link to tweet
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Tripped up by politics and the pandemic and with only a last-minute investment in promotion by the state the 2020 census likely undercounted the Texas population by roughly 2%, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.
The once-a-decade national count put Texas official population at 29,145,505 after it gained the most residents of any state in the last decade, earning two additional congressional seats. In a post-count analysis using survey results from households, the bureau estimated that the count for people living in Texas households a slightly smaller population than the total population failed to find more than half a million residents. Thats the equivalent of missing the entire populations of Lubbock, Laredo and then some.
The undercount means that many residents were missing from the data used by state lawmakers last year to redraw congressional and legislative districts to distribute political power. For the next decade, the undercount will also be baked into the data used by governments and industry to plan and provide for communities......
Tripped up by politics and the pandemic and with only a last-minute investment in promotion by the state the 2020 census likely undercounted the Texas population by roughly 2%, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.
The once-a-decade national count put Texas official population at 29,145,505 after it gained the most residents of any state in the last decade, earning two additional congressional seats. In a post-count analysis using survey results from households, the bureau estimated that the count for people living in Texas households a slightly smaller population than the total population failed to find more than half a million residents. Thats the equivalent of missing the entire populations of Lubbock, Laredo and then some.
The undercount means that many residents were missing from the data used by state lawmakers last year to redraw congressional and legislative districts to distribute political power. For the next decade, the undercount will also be baked into the data used by governments and industry to plan and provide for communities.
Tripped up by politics and the pandemic and with only a last-minute investment in promotion by the state the 2020 census likely undercounted the Texas population by roughly 2%, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.
The once-a-decade national count put Texas official population at 29,145,505 after it gained the most residents of any state in the last decade, earning two additional congressional seats. In a post-count analysis using survey results from households, the bureau estimated that the count for people living in Texas households a slightly smaller population than the total population failed to find more than half a million residents. Thats the equivalent of missing the entire populations of Lubbock, Laredo and then some.
The undercount means that many residents were missing from the data used by state lawmakers last year to redraw congressional and legislative districts to distribute political power. For the next decade, the undercount will also be baked into the data used by governments and industry to plan and provide for communities.
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The U.S. census estimates it missed more than a half-million Texans during 2020 count (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
May 2022
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Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)1. Doesn't this hurt the Republicans too?
I can't help thinking that Trump intentionally botched the census count, but I don't see how this would have benefited him unless he intentionally downcounted the blue states. And Texas isn't blue...yet.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,489 posts)2. Yes
Texas could have picked up one more congressional seal and more funding
dsc
(52,166 posts)3. It would be a mixed bag
Congressionally it would hurt them but statewide, it could help them if the people who weren't being counted were POC.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)4. This is what happens when you put Trump in charge of counting...
or anything else.
Probatim
(2,538 posts)6. This is what happens when you put republicans in charge.
They pass the money on to their friends who purposefully do a half assed job - then hold it up as an example of how government is incompetent.
MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)5. Even so, the tx gop would just redraw the districts to suit themselves.
No matter any outcome gov Abbutt would throw everything he could to blotch any new districts to serve his masters $$$$$$$$$$$
FakeNoose
(32,720 posts)7. Dear Texas: It happened to all of us, not just to you
Repeat after me ...
CHUMP DID THIS TO ALL OF US!