New figures on US population shifts are out.
There are roughly 307 million people in America now.
Texas is still growing gaining almost 500,000 people.
Notice that the shifts would change the makeup of Congress. Also notice that blue states would be losing seats in Congress while red states would be gaining.
Those shifts will not occur until an official census is taken in 2010.
USA Today: U.S. Census Bureau Population 2009
If congressional seats were assigned based on the July 1 estimates, Texas would be the big winner, gaining three seats, said Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services a consulting firm that specializes in election administration.
Gaining one seat each would be Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington.
Ohio would lose two House seats. Losing one each would be Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
The new estimates are a change from last year when Illinois had enough population to keep all its House seats and Ohio had enough people to lose just one seat..
3 comments:
Of course Texas is the winner. BV$h made sure Texas was well taken care of during his reign. Today if u look @ the map of states with the least amount of job loss their mostly red. No surprise there.
Texas has a lot of industry. They say Texas oilman and its true. There are a lot of oil and natural gas companies in Texas, lots of advanced tech industry, all kinds of things in agriculture, its a big deal.
Texas is BIG period.
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