IceAgeComing
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« on: January 30, 2021, 03:15:19 PM » |
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I believe that the rule normally is that every new state gets one congressman when they are first admitted regardless of population and they expand Congress by that amount: and then when the next census happens the calculation is based on 435 again and so one state would lose a Congressman if DC was admitted: and more would lose out if Puerto Rico was added since they would get a fair few because of their population. Don't quote me on the first bit of that though: they might give them the number they'd get if they were included in that Census and then expand Congress temporarily.
This would never happen but ideally part of dealing with this would be an expansion of the House to a number that would allow better representation - would cost slightly more but you'd get better representation plus its been found that gerrymandering gets harder the more representatives a state has.
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