The Unpredictable Political Effects of 2020 Census Tinkering
Critics say the administration is targeting Hispanics ahead of the population tally—but Trump-backing red states could stand to suffer as much as blue ones.
It isn’t hard to discern a pattern in the way the Trump administration is planning to conduct the 2020 Census, in the same way that it’s not hard to discern the racial animus against Hispanics that undergirds the president’s moves on immigration. Yet even if the motives are apparent, the effects are not so easy to predict.
Most notably, the Commerce Department has announced plans to add a question asking respondents about their citizenship, a move stoutly opposed by immigrant advocates. The Office of Management and Budget also on a plan to combine the Census’s
