12 seats switch states in Congress due to Census outcomes

The U.S. Census had some surprising results. One of them is changes to Congressional representation. Because of fluctuations in population, 12 seats within the House of Representatives are likely to other states. The brand new seats are mostly in strong Republican districts. Nobody even had to take out paydayloans to purchase the seats.

Census makes House change twelve seats

The Washington Post accounts the U.S. Census data made it so the number of seats within the House of Representatives changed. The House of Representatives gets seats based on the number of people in states. Seats are lost and gained if there is any change in population. Twelve seats total are changing. About 18 states could be affected by this. Probably the most seats were added to TX. In fact, four House seats were added. FL gained House seats also. It got 2 extra. There were several states that just gained one lower House seat. These included Washington State, Utah, Nevada, South Carolina, Georgia and Arizona. A single set was lost be Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Two seats were lost in both New York and Ohio.

Throughout last census, less human population growth

AOL News accounts that human population growth in the United States was shown in the 2010 Census to be less than previously observed. The census showed that the United States human population grew by only 9.7 percent since 2000, to 308,745,538 individuals. It wasn't that low since the Great Depression even. There was a 35.1 percent population expansion in Nevada making it so it grew the most. The worst though was the 0.6 percent loss that Michigan showed. Southern states grew in population by 14.3 percent, while the Northeast grew by only 3.2 percent.

Gains hurt Democrat side of things

Mostly republicans will be filling the gains in the House seats. Most of the areas, including Texas, which had House seat gains, were Republican. Texas experienced a human population boom of its own, having increased in population by 20 percent since the last census. There were several seats lost too. Most of these were in Democratic areas historically.

Info from

Washington Post

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122103084.html

AOL News

aolnews.com/2010/12/21/2010-census-us-population-growth-slowest-since-great-depression/