For the GOP the census, just like the electoral college, is a tool to remain relevant and maintain power as their numbers dwindle and their ideologies wither.
The census is completely unassuming. Almost no one outside of politicians, bureaucrats and the professionally interested thinks about it, or about reapportionment. But these provisions are quietly powerful parts of our constitutional order. Their creation, Van Cleve notes, meant acceptance of the idea that
the political majority “should be continuously represented in government, no matter where that majority was found within the nation’s expanding boundaries.” It meant that no existing political majority could ever fully insulate itself from the winds of change.
Jamelle Bouie raises good points
It has not stood the test of time.
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But history has a way of confounding those who think they can control it.
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