The 2020 U.S. census undercounted the Hispanic or Latino population at triple the rate that it did in 2010, according to analyses of the decennial survey released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday.
Feature, not bug…this was the intent of the people running the Census bureau under Trump, to get more white people and, therefore, more Republicans elected. The Census people did what they could, but the sabotage was clear. It makes it very important that we have a Democratic administration in 2030, so they run a census that is accurate, otherwise the same thing will happen again.
A fact that our Media Glitterati won’t bother state, but certainly will frame this as a problem for Biden and Dems who need to do more to reach minorities.
All so-called groups have variations that are coin flicks to “evaluate”. Many years ago I taught an ESL course in which one of the students surprised** me by stating that she was white.
**my surprise was due more to the setting of the class than anything else and, in addition, I was confident that she would be readily seen as white.
I agree. All Biden would have to do is ask Congress to write the bills and vote yes.
While he’s at it, he can ask the Senate to vote on the USPS governors that he nominated in mid Nov. of 2021. And then ask DOJ to investigate whether Wilbur Ross is dead yet . If not, charge and arrest him.
Theoretically. The one time a Census was done too poorly, so they just ignored the results. Every Census has errors, they do use statistics for some of the counting…and they always undercount the Black and Latino vote, so that won’t be enough reason to dump this one (though it should be). Doing another count would be seen as political, instead of the adjustment that it should be, so that and the cost will make it a non-starter.
The important question is if it affected apportionment…if, say, NY or CA were undercounted and lost their seats because of it, while a Republican state gained because of the overcount of white voters, there may be ground for an equal protection lawsuit. If money is pulled out of certain areas, same deal. It’s especially bad because there were stories of intentionally not counting Black and Latino areas, especially at the end of the process.
What would it have looked like if Trump & Wilbur Ross had NOT been able to get their way and abruptly announce “PENCILS DOWN” earlier that originally planned …