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Precinct-level Politics

marylandblue

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2. If you are in a red state, it's better not to answer the census at all to weaken red states.

Reply to radical noodle (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 4, 2019, 01:03 PM

Jul 2019

In a blue state, you want to be counted, but leave blank the citizen question to the immigrants harder to catch.

Trump has even politicized the Census, and I think the result be a lot of strategic filings by both Ds and Rs.

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Can democrats in red districts lessen red state power by declining to respond to the Census? [View all] ArcticFox Jul 2019 OP

Just don't answer the citizenship question radical noodle Jul 2019 #1

If you are in a red state, it's better not to answer the census at all to weaken red states. marylandblue Jul 2019 #2

Florida radical noodle Jul 2019 #3

"Florida Man fills out Census in Crayon, claims Bigfoot ethnicity" marylandblue Jul 2019 #4

Leave it to a Floridian n/t radical noodle Jul 2019 #6

Not answering doesn't punish them Midnightwalk Jul 2019 #5

The OP was really about opening up a second front ArcticFox Jul 2019 #9

Yeah I can see that Midnightwalk Jul 2019 #10

Happy to hear I've gotten you thinking ArcticFox Jul 2019 #11

No. The Census is mandatory, and even you try to get people to boycott it... TreasonousBastard Jul 2019 #7

But it's not really mandatory ArcticFox Jul 2019 #8

There's punishment... 2naSalit Mar 2020 #12