NPR has a piece today on a U.S. Census Bureau report that discovered that, in 2020, “all states were not counted equally well for population numbers used to allocate political representation and federal funding over the next decade.”
The states that were significantly undercounted — hurting them in the electoral college, the House of Representatives, and for federal funding purposes — were:
Arkansas (5.04%), Florida (3.48%), Illinois (1.97%), Mississippi (4.11%), Tennessee (4.78%) and Texas (1.92%).
The states that were overcounted — thereby gaining more funding and representation than they deserved — were:
Delaware (5.45%), Hawaii (6.79%), Massachusetts (2.24%), Minnesota (3.84%), New York (3.44%), Ohio (1.49%), Rhode Island (5.05%) and Utah (2.59%).
On balance, the mistakes made here have hurt Republicans far more than Democrats.
Per NPR, such profound mistakes are not normal:
the 2020 results stand in stark contrast to the findings from the bureau’s follow-up survey for the 2010 census, which had no statistically significant over- or undercounts for any state.
The full report is here.