From Politico:
10 states are on track to lose one seat: Rhode Island, West Virginia, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Alabama, Illinois and California, which would drop a House seat for the first time in its 169-year history.
“I think it’s really a continuation of
what we’ve seen since 1930,” said Kimball Brace, the president of
Election Data Services. "It is a movement away from the Northeast and
the Upper Midwest to the South and to the West."
...except, as noted above, the Southern States of Alabama and West Virginia.
As for Alabama, there has been a majority Republican government for decades, including all of the statewide elected officials and a super-majority of both houses of the state legislature.
So who is to blame for the declining population and the resulting loss of a member of congress? The Democrats?


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