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| The Democrats' 2020 Census Goal: Turn Purple States Irreversibly Blue |
| 2019-02-25 |
| [American Thinker] Later this year, the U.S. Supreme Court is going to decide on the constitutionality of President Trump's request that a citizenship question be placed in the 2020 U.S. Census. Democrats know that the 2020 Census citizenship question likely passes constitutional muster; like everything else constitutional, that's why they fiercely object to it, citing "privacy" concerns ‐ a concern a federal judge, earlier this month, rejected. So what's the real reason they're opposed to a citizenship question? Democrats know that states are blue or purple; they want to pad the stat sheet in the swing states. States' electoral votes, as well as future federal funding, are determined by their population totals. Having illegals and non-citizens counted in our Census means that swing states' electoral votes will increase, as they did for several swing states between the 2000 and 2010 Censuses. THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE "The issue is never the issue," as Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky once remarked, and the Census, illegal immigration, and non-citizen unholy trinity is not at all different. After the 2010 Census, Texas gained four U.S. House of Representatives seats. It's worth noting that Texas has had gains after every Census since it joined the Union in 1845. Florida, after the 2010 Census, gained two seats; like Texas, Florida was admitted into the Union in 1845 and has also seen its electoral votes increase after every Census. Reliably Democrat states such as Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey each lost a seat following the 2010 Census, and New York lost two. Undoubtedly, Democrats, usually guaranteed those states' electoral votes, would like to see gains there after the 2020 Census. Electoral vote allocations from the 2010 Census expire after the 2020 elections; 2020 data will determine electoral votes from 2022 to 2032. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 You can move folks out of California to turn Texas purple but in the process you turn California purple as well. Perhaps that is what is behind California's let every Latino in policy, hoping to shore up the blue vote. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-02-25 10:16 |