(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Violating Jay’s hiatus post yet again, just wanted to pass along Wendell Cox’s write up on the new Census numbers. Texas will be gaining **ahem** 4 new Congressional seats after the 2010 Census, Florida will get two, and a variety of Western and Southern state will pick up one, with the notable exception of California, which scored a goose egg. The sclerotic states of the Midwest and Northeast lost seats yet again.
Two graphics from Cox tell the story:
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And for the Northeast and Midwest:
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