Demographic Trends

California

[estimates of which states will gain and lose House seats and electoral votes based on extrapolations from the 2007 Census Bureau population estimates.- not very exciting - it's the note at the bottom...]

Note: Polidata projects California to lose one congressional seat. This may or may not happen. But if it does, or if California just stays even, this will represent a stark reversal of a very long trend: California has gained House seats in every Census-dictated reapportionment since it was admitted to the Union in 1850. Immigrants are still streaming into California, but the domestic outflow is balancing that off.

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