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by dragonwriter 1647 days ago
> When CA goes from the most prosperous state to loosing enough pop to get demoted a representative in the House

It didn't lose any population. Because of the fixed size of the House, you can lose a rep while gaining population (in California’s case, gaining more than 2.2 million between the 2010 and 2020 census.) Also, apportionment isn't tied at all to prosperitt; California didn't get any less relatively prosperous to lose a seat, so your “going from...” doesn't make any sense, even ignoring the factual error about losing population.
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barbacoa 1647 days ago
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/us/california-population-drop...

California experienced a population decline in 2021, the first in its history as a state. That may be what GP was referring.

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dragonwriter 1647 days ago
> California experienced a population decline in 2021, the first in its history as a state. That may be what GP was referring.

That couldn't be the population drop GP referred to costing a house seat, since it was after the Census on which the apportionment was based, and would have no effect on apportionment except in how it contributes to the state at the time of the 2030 Census.

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