It's because federal money and electoral votes are based on the census. California, New York, Illinois and others understood they would lose political power (electoral votes) and government cheese (i.e., the money that comes out of all of our paychecks every two weeks).
This is interesting... Is this why Dems were pushing so hard to have illegals added to the census?
It's because federal money and electoral votes are based on the census. California, New York, Illinois and others understood they would lose political power (electoral votes) and government cheese (i.e., the money that comes out of all of our paychecks every two weeks).