If this were any other President in the Modern Era.

As the pundits have pointed out, on the surface, asking someone if they are a citizen of this country (or any country) during a nation's census makes sense because the countries representatives are voted on by citizens. However, as with everything else since President Trump eked out an electoral college victory (while losing the popular vote: it never gets old to remind people), positions and policy mostly take an alternate reality course. If any modern President in the modern era (say Truman forward) wanted to include this question on the census (and the question was on it up until the 1950's), no one would question the motives of the President or his/her surrogates. Not so with President Trump. Everyone is so concerned that he would use that question as a way to go house to house trying to uncover illegal aliens, there is a fear that some states will lose out on their census numbers. If that is the goal of the Trump people. If that is their goal (and it probably is), Blue California, Nevada, and New Mexico would not be the only states to lose representation. Red bastions like Arizona, Utah, Texas, Alabama, and Florida (Purple during Presidential Elections) would be included in that equation as well. You can not have it both ways Mr. President.


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