This isn’t really a new idea in fact there have been lots of articles published about this topic in the past five years. Still, with the next census just over five years away, it’s something today’s Democrats might want to be thinking about.
The idea is simple. Over the past decade, many more Americans have moved to red states from blue states than the other way around. Blue states are losing population and that becomes a political problem for Democrats every time the census is taken and the number of House seats are reapportioned.
After the 2020 census it was mostly red states that gained seats and mostly blue states that lost seats, though the overall shift wasn’t very dramatic that year.
Based on the 2020 Census apportionment population counts, seven seats shifted among 13 states, while the number of representatives for most states remained unchanged…
