The Consequences of Not Having a Citizenship Question
Believe it or not, just days remain between now and 2020. As a leap year, 2020 will bring a lot with it; including the Summer Olympics and a presidential election. In addition to all of the events normally associated with leap years and even years in United States politics, another notable event will take place in 2020: the decennial census. The Trump administration caused heads to explode in the mainstream media when it announced that it would include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Because of litigation, the administration ultimately abandoned the effort to ask a citizenship question. The population figures outlined in the census determine the number of seats each state will receive in the United States House of Representatives and the Electoral College. States with higher population growth rates enjoy more representation in those bodies in the first election following the census while states with lower rates of population growt...