To Be Announced...

A while back, I mentioned the undies-in-a-bunch crowd boo-hooing the latest news for Iowa's census figures. See Post: Senseless Census

In it, I explained the reason for the "loss" of population in the state and the implications it has on our Congressional representation.

Quick Civics 101 - Each state's US representation in Congress is made up of two Senators and a number of Representatives calculated by dividing the population of the state and it's "priority value" as determined by Congress. It's very confusing, but there's a mathematical formula they use...see US Census info here.

Anyway...this is a big deal because each state gets one electoral vote per member of Congress. Iowa gets 7 electoral college votes that determine the Presidency, 5 Representatives and 2 Senators. IF, as expected, Iowa loses a member of Congress because we're not keeping up with other states in population growth - well...I think you know where I'm going with this.

To date, this is the first mention in the mainstream media that I have found that mentions the fact the US Census INCLUDES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS in the population count every ten years. The year 2000 was the first census to do so.

Census Bureau: Big Metro Areas Would Shrink Without Immigration

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Without immigrants pouring into the nation's big metro areas, places such as New York, Los Angeles and Boston would be shrinking as native-born Americans move farther out.

Many smaller areas, including Battle Creek, Mich., Ames, Iowa, and Corvallis, Ore., would shrink as well, according to population estimates to be released Thursday by the Census Bureau.

"Immigrants are filling the void as domestic migrants are seeking opportunities in other places," said Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a private research organization.

In the newspeak of the day, "immigrants" of course truly means "illegal immigrants"...about a third of these numbers are illegal...maybe more. But still...

The New York metro area, which includes the suburbs, added 1 million immigrants from 2000 to 2006. Without those immigrants, the region would have lost nearly 600,000 people.

Minus 9 after that fire a while ago...

Without immigration, the Los Angeles metro area would have lost more than 200,000, the San Francisco area would have lost 188,000 and the Boston area would have lost 101,000.

By the way, this is bad news according to the tone of the story. Without illegal immigrants, those cities would have less population - that's the angle on the story they're taking.

There are about 36 million immigrants in the U.S. About one-third are in the country illegally. The Census Bureau, however, does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants.

The White House floated a plan last month that would grant work visas to illegal immigrants, but they would have to return home and pay hefty fines to become legal U.S. residents.

As I said earlier...the census counts the number of "residents"...not citizens. Without counting illegal immigrants, California would have 5 fewer members of Congress...therefore, 5 fewer electoral college votes. And Iowa...might have six Representatives instead of 5.

Certainly, the state of Wyoming would have more than just the ONE they have now.


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