[C.]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

https://www.statesman.com/story/news...ns/7391724002/
As Texas' Census count comes up short, some blame effort to add question about U.S. citizenship

Philip Jankowski
Austin American-Statesman

The somewhat deflating news from the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday that Texas picked up two new seats in Congress instead of a widely projected three left some questioning whether politics or the pandemic might have created an undercount.

Texas came up about 190,000 people short of earning a 39th seat in the U.S. House, according to state population growth figures released Monday. While Texas continued to add more people than any other state, the final tally coming in 0.6% lower than projections was enough to keep the Lone Star State from a 41st Electoral College vote.

Michael Li, redistricting counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, pointed at some Republican Party policies for playing a role in Texas coming up short of the projected population tally. The lack of investment in census outreach coupled with the Trump administration's attempt to place a citizenship question on the census might have led to an undercount in Texas, Li said.

"I think the minute they announced (the citizenship question) at the end of 2018, a lot of the damage was done," Li said. "It was difficult to put the genie back in the bottle after that happened."

Hahaha!!!