Political Power Shifts to Right as Red States Gain Population in 2020 Census

Population changes in 2020 census shift power to Republicans. With today's ALG Minute, I'm Catherine Mortensen. Political power in the U.S. will shift further to states in the South and Mountain West—with Texas picking up two House seats and California losing one—as the country’s overall population growth slowed to the lowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said Monday. Besides the double gain for Texas, five states will gain one seat each: Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon. Seven states will lose one each: California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The changes are expected to favor Republicans because red-leaning states are gaining more seats on net, and because the GOP has more control in redrawing the new congressional maps.

Overall, the U.S. population grew 7.4% in the past decade, according to the Census Bureau. The population reached 331,449,281 on April 1, 2020.
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