Originally published at: On Project 2025’s Recommendation, Trump Admin Targets New Census Initiative With Widespread Potential Impact - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Quyen Dinh didn’t even remember that, in 2024, she was selected as one of 23 appointees to the Census 2030 Advisory Committee. The group has been disbanded since March by order of President Donald Trump, eradicating professional expertise from the planning of the decennial census. Dinh had also been involved, through her role as executive…
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These clowns really are the gang that can’t shoot straight.
You can’t manage racial gerrymanders if you don’t know the racial composition of Census tracts. Now there are a host of legitimate reasons we’d like to have accurate racial/ethnic breakdowns, but gerrymanders aren’t one of the legit reasons.
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Along with ethnic qualities, Congress would do well to know and conceivably care about their constituent’s health and nutrition conditions.
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Hey, we can’t be discriminating against non-white voters…they don’t exist. Problem solved!
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Darn! They will have to go directly to the political affiliations!
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Well once they eliminate data on race then they can go after gender. The Old White Boy’s Club will rise again!
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The only group Trump truly represents are the rich radical conservatives, everyone else is prey or expendable.
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That’s not known on quite such a granular level, and especially so since American voters are increasingly not affiliating as “D” or “R”. Then you have states like Ohio, where the state knows which primaries you’ve voted in, but you have no official party affiliation unless you join your local Democratic Party or Republican Party club.
Without Census data, all you know is how the currently drawn precincts voted. That’s not good enough data to gerrymander a map.
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With Lefty support, no less! How many decades have our intellectuals been assuring us that there’s no such thing as “race”? (Discrimination to the contrary, I guess?) And a more recent crusade holds that there’s no such thing as “sex”, either – it’s all just a “spectrum”? (Hundreds of thousands of years of reproduction to the contrary?)
While the Ivory Tower celebrates, the Good Ol’ Boys just smirk.
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Ahh, but you see there will be a precipitous drop in citizens claiming to be white…and MAGA can’t have that as gerrymandering fails when there are far fewer “majority white” districts. So, they don’t want census that includes SP 15
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