Census: Why don't we all just boycott the citizenship question? (assuming there is one)

[Ms. Toad]

73. If you don't answer the question,

they will assume you are a non-citizen. They are not going to just tsll the informaiton. That will shift citizen-based lines to heavily Republican - since they are the ones answering the question.

This will be the only data gathered for 10 years. You're wiling to risk the current Supreme Court ruling that there can be citizen-only districts, with no means to correctteh data on which those districts are based for a decade? In that decade (which can use citizen-based heavily Republican districts, likely with far less gerrymandering), how many more lopsided Congresses will be elected? How many more heavily Republican states will be granted additional seats? How many more Supreme Court Justices (and judges in lower courts) will be appointed - or Democtratically appointed judges refused to be confirmed - in that time period? Those are lifetime appointments - so even if the population-based representation is impaired only for a decade, the potential impact is far more serious and long-lasting.