Census data revelations

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A historian’s take, specifically on the overweighted white rural vote. Click on her name of course to get there:

Heather Cox Richardson

August 13, 2021 (Friday) Yesterday, the Census Bureau released information about the 2020 census, designed to enable states to start the process of drawing new lines for their congressional districts, a process known as redistricting. Because of that very limited intent for this particular information dump, the picture the material gives is a very specific one. The specificity of that information echoes the political history that in the 1920s began to skew our Congress to give rural white vote…