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RI is now within 157 residents of losing a US House seat, expert warns
wpri ^ | December 20. 2017

Posted on 12/20/2017 6:02:59 PM PST by SMGFan

R.I. (WPRI) – Rhode Island is now just 157 residents away from losing one of its two seats in the U.S. House, which would give the state a single vote there for the first time since George Washington was president, according to an analysis of newly released population data.

Kimball Brace, the reapportionment expert who has been involved in drawing legislative and congressional districts in Rhode Island since the early 1980s, ran the numbers Wednesday after the U.S. Census Bureau announced Rhode Island had added about 2,000 residents between July 2016 and July 2017.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: bluestates; census; congress; flee; house; houseseat; reapportionment; rhodeisland; seat; ushouse; ushouseseat
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Something to root for. RI meet Vermont.

Will WVA lose a seat as well?

1 posted on 12/20/2017 6:02:59 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Maybe we should tell them they are losing it to illegal alien dominated districts in California?

That should explode their heads


2 posted on 12/20/2017 6:04:27 PM PST by Regulator
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To: SMGFan

There are ranches in Texas that are bigger than Rhode Island, seriously. They need to throw in the towel and be folded into one of those other tiny little northeastern states that wield far too much power.


3 posted on 12/20/2017 6:06:39 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Minnesota is at serious risk of losing seat in Congress

https://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/2017/12/minnesota-is-at-serious-risk-of-losing-seat-in-congress/


4 posted on 12/20/2017 6:07:23 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: SMGFan
Anyone familiar with Rhode Island knows why people are clawing their way out of that cesspool.
5 posted on 12/20/2017 6:08:26 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: SMGFan

Wow.
I thought MN was a jobs haven...


6 posted on 12/20/2017 6:09:25 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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7 posted on 12/20/2017 6:10:00 PM PST by Enterprise (Do away with all symbols of past slavery. Start with the Democrat Party.)
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To: SMGFan

Gee, that loss of the state tax deduction will probably encourage more snowbirds, commuters, etc to use lower tax states as their primary residence by the 2020 census, costing another safe Dem seat.


8 posted on 12/20/2017 6:11:53 PM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: SMGFan

After hearing their dumb idiot congressman speak on the floor yesterday, I’d vote with my feet and head southwest.


9 posted on 12/20/2017 6:12:19 PM PST by klimeckg
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To: aynrandfreak

Under an analysis using a calculator from the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Research Center, the current population estimates would have the following effect on representation in the 435-seat Congress.
Gain seats:
Colorado +1
Florida +1
North Carolina +1
Oregon +1
Texas +2
Lose seats:
Illinois -1
Michigan -1
Minnesota -1
New York -1
Pennsylvania -1
West Virginia -1


10 posted on 12/20/2017 6:12:50 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: SMGFan

The entire zip code of Rhode Island can squat on a stuffed quahog and eat it.


11 posted on 12/20/2017 6:12:54 PM PST by Viking2002 ("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
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To: SMGFan; P.O.E.; Tribune7; Nextrush; Daveinyork; Red in Blue PA; carriage_hill

Meanwhile Pennsylvania has grown and regained the position of 5th largest state despite the best efforts of Tommie (the Commie) Wolf to turn it into a socialist zhit-hole.

We might actually regain the recently lost 19th Congressional District.


12 posted on 12/20/2017 6:13:33 PM PST by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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Well, the RI libtards better raise taxes to ensure the exodus of the state doesn’t effect their governmental budgets...


13 posted on 12/20/2017 6:13:37 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Regulator
Maybe we should tell them they are losing it to illegal alien dominated districts in California?

That should explode their heads


Based on my experience in eastern CT and New England in general, it wouldn't explode their heads. The folks up there are merely resigned, and expect to get more of the same.
14 posted on 12/20/2017 6:13:38 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: SMGFan

Crap, you posted that while I still typing my reply.


15 posted on 12/20/2017 6:15:31 PM PST by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

There are lovely parts of Rhode Island.

I like the state.

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16 posted on 12/20/2017 6:16:50 PM PST by Mears
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To: SMGFan
Good. One less blue congressman after 2020.
17 posted on 12/20/2017 6:18:36 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: lightman

PA’s growth is too slow. It’ll lose another seat.


18 posted on 12/20/2017 6:18:37 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: hinckley buzzard

RI’s Congressmembers are both Commie REDS.


19 posted on 12/20/2017 6:19:10 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: SMGFan

Texas will pick up another coupla seats in the next census, I bet.


20 posted on 12/20/2017 6:22:05 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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