Census redistricting data

[Velar Fricative]

District-level Census data will finally be released today. Post updates and thoughts here! It's going to be a doozy.


www.politico.com/news/2021/08/12/redistricting-census-data-503994

[pugz]

I have a lot of anxiety about this. KS has a super majority and is redistricting in a way to get Sharice Davids out of office. They said so explicitly last year during a campaign fundraiser.

[Velar Fricative]

It's been released but need some time to dig through the numbers. Here's a very generalized article from AP:

apnews.com/article/census-2020-house-elections-4ee80e72846c151aa41a808b06d975ea?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP

[Velar Fricative]

I'm basically just following Dave Wasserman and Twitter for now. He said based on his early read, this is a more favorable Census count than minority advocacy groups and Democrats had feared, because there are stronger urban and weaker rural numbers.

[Velar Fricative]

The fastest-growing metro area in the country is...

The Villages.

[abs]

Houston had 10% growth compared to the last census.

[Velar Fricative]

Damn, even NYC grew to 8.8 million. Where did all of these additional people fit? lol

[abs]

Can't wait to see the new gerrymandered to hell districts they come up with over here.

[heat40]

Hispanic pop. 18.7% up from 16.3% of the 2010 census. yup. pay attention to us!!

[jene]

MN peeps, MPR reporter David Montgomery has the population changes for each of our districts up on twitter.

And for the MN2 people, it sounds like our district will be moving to a safer blue

[msmerymac]

Philly is pretty pumped. We knew we'd be the 6th largest city, but Phoenix, which is mainly just a large plot of suburban sprawl, only beat us out by fewer than 5000 residents, and it's 3 times the size, geographically.

I say "us" but I live in the Philly burbs, which are also much denser and more well-populated than any metro area except Chicago and NY.

And most of the growth came from migration/immigration.