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by omegaworks 2267 days ago
Even the House is slowly becoming less representative. The number of seats was capped at 435 back in the Taft era and states have rarely lost seats since[1].

With the 2020 Census likely in disarray due to both the Coronavirus and this administration's clear, documented intent to bias it "to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites,"[2] the crisis of representation will only worsen.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/31/u-s-populat...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/census-citizenship-que...