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[quote=Anonymous]Historically, many minority populations have been undercounted for a variety of reasons. This time around, the administration was pretty happy about it and didn’t bother with the kind of outreach that was done in previous census counts. I’m pretty sure that was a deliberate and welcomed “oversight”. During an earlier census count, I worked in an area with many high-risk kids and families. I remember people in the community were hired to go door to door in their own communities to collect census data — putting more neighborly faces on the government’s efforts to collect accurate data.  I’m not clear that outreach efforts of that sort were done this time.

Fewer minorities will mean fewer people in districts that have significant minority populations— which might mean less representation and less money in districts that are likely to lean Democratic. Again, I’m sure the undercounts were just an “oversight “.

Recently I read that, in contrast, white people were over-counted — and I’m trying to understand that. I get missing data that results in an undercount, but what has to happen to get an OVER count? [/quote]

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