If SCOTUS allows the citizenship question, it will create the data necessary to redefine political representation in some states. Let’s think through the implications of that:https://nyti.ms/2Y56ocb?smid=nytcore-ios-share …
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Counting only voting-age citizens — not total population — in redistricting would most likely shift power from young diverse urban areas toward older, whiter places.
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In a states like Texas, the effect would be driven more by removing children from political maps, not removing noncitizens. And the child population of Texas looks very different from the voting population. The voting population is 20 percentage points more white.
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In computer-generated Texas senate redistricting plans, a typical map that counts only voting-age citizens produces huge population disparities: some districts would be 50% larger than others, because of all the uncounted children and noncitizens.
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All of this matters because children and noncitizens aren’t evenly distributed across states. And because the child population is far more diverse than the adult one.pic.twitter.com/ftwaNqrGpt
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History also teaches us that when urban areas are underrepresented in state legislatures, they get less money, and state policies lean more conservative.
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Political maps drawn to exclude children and noncitizens would have the effect in Texas and Arizona of rolling back nearly two decades of demographic changehttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/upshot/america-who-deserves-representation.html …
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All part of Putin's clever plan to influence American elections by rolling back the increasing influence of Mexicans! America, a pawn in the eternal Russia-Mexico chess game
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