I\u2019m very interested to see how this plays out. I worked for the Census Bureau for six years and who got counted in the decennial census was always very contentious. After every census the Bureau would be sued by several states who believed their population were undercounted (states always want to maximize their population to get the maximum number of congressional seats). The Census\u2019 position always was that the Constitution states that they are to count the number of \u201cpersons\u201d in each state without any other qualifiers. There is a historical basis for this since slaves were not citizens and they were to be counted (the 3\/5 rule would be mute otherwise). Of course slaves were here legally. I suspect the legal folks at the Census Bureau are scrambling right now and I don\u2019t know how they are going to officially react. We live in interesting times for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m very interested to see how this plays out. I worked for the Census Bureau for six years and who got counted in the decennial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4024,1489,6],"tags":[4025,1596,1496],"class_list":["post-34155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-glenn-w","category-guest-contributors","category-trump","tag-glenn-w","tag-guest-contributors","tag-us-census"],"yoast_head":"\n