'The South and Southwest are growing increasingly powerful. The Rust Belt is getting rapidly weaker. ... Advantage Republicans,' writes CillizzaCNN
And the news is very good for the Southwest and South and not at all good for the industrial Midwest and Northeast.Texas is projected to be the biggest gainer post-2020, adding three more congressional districts due to massive population growth over the past decade. Florida, too, continued to grow at a gangbuster pace and is expected to gain two seats prior to the 2022 midterm elections.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! Which is interesting! But not nearly as interesting -- or telling -- as what you see when you take a step back and look at the longer-term population trends.Since the 2000 census -- so from 1990 to these late 2019 estimates -- here are the biggest seat-gainers:Texas Florida Arizona Georgia Colorado North Carolina And the biggest losers: New York Ohio Pennsylvania Illinois Michigan That 30-year trend is unmistakeable. The South and Southwest are growing increasingly powerful.
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