The citizenship question the Trump administration wanted to add to the 2020 census would have likely been especially sensitive in areas with higher shares of Latinx residents and noncitizens. That’s among the Census Bureau’s final conclusions from its recent experiment testing public reaction to the question. CONT. Hansi Lo Wang, […] Read more »
Gerrymandering is alive and well. The coming battle will be bigger than ever.
The gerrymandering wars are heading South. A number of Southern states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, are prime targets for partisan gerrymandering as the congressional redistricting process gets underway after next year’s statehouse elections, experts said. … America’s decennial congressional redistricting process — when roughly even-sized House districts […] Read more »
Do Americans Think there will be a Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census?
In June earlier this year, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump Administration’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census. … One lingering repercussion could be in fostering misperceptions about the Census. Given how much the Census citizenship question was in the news in the last year, […] Read more »
Emails Show Trump Officials Consulted With GOP Strategist On Citizenship Question
A prominent GOP redistricting strategist had direct communication with an adviser to the Trump administration concerning the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, newly released emails show. The emails were released Tuesday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which has been conducting an investigation into the […] Read more »
Public Expresses Favorable Views of a Number of Federal Agencies
Despite historically low levels of public trust in the federal government, Americans across the political spectrum continue to overwhelmingly express favorable opinions of a number of individual federal agencies, including the Postal Service, the National Park Service, NASA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And majorities of […] Read more »
Six maps that reveal America’s expanding racial diversity
In less than one year, the 2020 census will record just how much more racially diverse the nation has become, continuing the “diversity explosion” that punctuated the results of the 2010 census. While less authoritative than the once-a-decade national headcount, recently released U.S. Census Bureau estimates for 2018 make plain […] Read more »