WASHINGTON (AP) – The first numbers from the 2020 census are out and they show Republican-controlled Southern and Western states gaining congressional seats.
The once-a-decade head count shows where the population grew during the past 10 years and where it shrank.
Fast-growing Texas got enough people to merit two new House seats.
Florida and North Carolina picked up one each. In contrast, Michigan, New York and Ohio each lost a seat. So did California – losing a seat for the first time ever.
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