And census takers counted as many people as possible in those blue states.
Red states said fuck it, don’t count any non-citizens.
And red states suffered from their racist policy in the re-apportionment.
It’s a classic story that’s repeated over and over again. Racists put in place a racist policy to appease their racist supporters, and that racist policy hurts them.
Look at Florida, where republican racists put in place a policy to punish anyone who works with undocumented migrant workers, and now, no one is picking Florida produce because the migrants went elsewhere.
Whereas, blue states are open and accepting (for the most part) and offer help obtaining paperwork and even help navigating the citizenship process.
States had nothing to do with it except supply local workers and resources for said workers, and then republicans made noises about using it to track down and deport undocumented migrants, especially in places like Texas and Florida.
Depends. Sanctuary states have a lot of undocumented as well. Those are universally blue.
And census takers counted as many people as possible in those blue states.
Red states said fuck it, don’t count any non-citizens.
And red states suffered from their racist policy in the re-apportionment.
It’s a classic story that’s repeated over and over again. Racists put in place a racist policy to appease their racist supporters, and that racist policy hurts them.
Look at Florida, where republican racists put in place a policy to punish anyone who works with undocumented migrant workers, and now, no one is picking Florida produce because the migrants went elsewhere.
Whereas, blue states are open and accepting (for the most part) and offer help obtaining paperwork and even help navigating the citizenship process.
The census was a federal campaign. The states had nothing to do with it, it was administrated by the Feds.
States had nothing to do with it except supply local workers and resources for said workers, and then republicans made noises about using it to track down and deport undocumented migrants, especially in places like Texas and Florida.