Electoral Demographics: America’s Population Grows Slowest Since 1930 and Second Slowest in U.S. History | International

The political weight of the southern states of the United States is greater than 10 years ago, as the first figures of the 2020 census revealed on Monday. Conservative strongholds like Texas, North Carolina or Florida – is considered like pendular territory, but he’s voted Donald Trump both times – they’ll have more seats in Congress due to their population growth over the past decade. The House of Representatives is made up of 435 members, so as the number of legislators increases in one state, it decreases in others. Among the territories that lost a siege were New York and California. The latter will see its representativeness decrease for the first time in 170 years of statute due to the slowdown in migration.

The Census Bureau revealed that the US population reaches 331,449,281 citizens, an increase of 7.4% over the past decade. This growth is the weakest since 1930 and the second weakest in the history of the country. In addition to the redistribution of seats in Congress, these numbers trigger the battles between Democrats and Republicans over redistribution. Information such as ethnicity, gender and accommodation will be released by the end of the year. Donald Trump led a crusade to include the question of citizenship, but the Supreme Court rejected the Republican’s request, considering the arguments for obtaining this information to be “forced”.

Quantitative data as well as more detailed data will be used by state legislatures or independent groups to redraw political maps.

Texas, with four million new residents, was the most prosperous state, with two new seats in the House of Representatives. Florida, Montana, North Carolina, all Republicans, have an extra. Oregon and Colorado, the Democrats, also added one. States that lost seats included Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and California. All with Democratic governors where President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

The most populous state in the country is still California, a symbol of growth since the 19th century. Over the past decade, it added 2.3 million people, an increase of 6.1%, but lost a seat in Congress because other states exceeded that percentage of expansion. With that, California lawmakers will drop from 53 to 52 in the House of Representatives. The fall that did not surprise the experts is that of New York. The question was whether he would lose one or two seats in Congress. The Census Bureau reported that the Progressive Territory lost just one, by just 89 people, leaving 26 lawmakers.

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