Comment by pixl97
>world population is under 1 billion is bonkers,
Yea, that would leave the US and Japan with about half the world population assuming our counts are even close to correct.
>world population is under 1 billion is bonkers,
Yea, that would leave the US and Japan with about half the world population assuming our counts are even close to correct.
States aren't the ones doing the counting, though, the US Census Bureau is
Given that Texas forgot to take advantage of this during the last election, it would seem the incentives are pretty negligible.
> assuming our counts are even close to correct.
That's a bold assumption. States get more representatives if they inflate the population count: https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-ap...