Blogmocracy in action!
Guest post by: Huckfunn!
The U.S. Census Bureau rolled out its data for the 2010 Census yesterday. The information contained in the census will be used by prognosticators from all segments of government, media, education and industry to forecast where we should, or should not, build our homes, schools and businesses for the next 10 years. The data will be used by marketing companies to determine the best places for them to sell everything from Cheerios to Buicks and Pampers to wheelchairs. Perhaps the most important result of the census is the apportionment of the House of Representatives. The media has already informed us of the winners and losers:
The apportionment winners are:
Texas (4 seats)
Florida (2 seats)
Arizona (1 seat)
Georgia (1 seat)
Nevada (1 seat)
South Carolina (1 seat)
Utah (1 seat)
Washington (1 seat)
The losers are:
New York (2 seats)
Ohio (2 seats)
Illinois (1 seat)
Iowa (1 seat)
Louisiana (1 seat)
Massachusetts (1 seat)
Michigan (1 seat)
Missouri (1 seat)
New Jersey (1 seat)
Pennsylvania (1 seat)
It’s plain to see that the populace is fleeing the Northeast and Midwest for the South and West. The losing states have long been dominated by democrat leadership and their disastrous economic policies of high taxes, overspending, corruption and over-regulation. It will be interesting to see how and where winning states such as Texas place their new seats.
Now here’s the good part. Along with re-apportionment of the House, we also have redistricting which, like the census, happens every 10 years. The state legislatures will redraw their respective congressional districts in order to obtain the most favorable outcome in congressional elections. If you’re on the winning side of an election you call it “redistricting”. If you’re on the losing side of the election you, and your pals in the media, will call it “gerrymandering” because that word sounds evil. Both dems and repubs have been doing it for as long as there have been dems and repubs. As a result of the November elections, the GOP gained over 675 seats in the state legislatures and now controls 55 chambers while the dims control 38 and 2 are tied. This map illustrates which party controls the various state legislatures. Additionally, the GOP controls state governorships 29 – 30 as indicated on this map at RealClearPolitics. I’m not sure what happened to the 50th. At any rate, the GOP governors will help facilitate the good work of the GOP legislatures in the redistricting process.
Bottom line: The convergence of the census, the re-apportionment of Congress and redistricting of the congressional districts should give a boost to GOP dominance of the political landscape for the next 10 years… provided they don’t fook it up.
