From the Associated Press:
Texas gained four House seats and Florida picked up two, while New York and Ohio each lost two seats in the new census count.
The Census Bureau released highly awaited 2010 census results.
Other winners included Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington. They each gained one seat.
States losing one seat each were Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Read the whole thing here. For the first time since the 19th Century, California did not gain a Congressional seat. The GOP will have unprecedented power to redraw congressional lines this year, especially in the states picking up seats. Also noteworthy that the states gaining seats had far lower levels of taxation than those losing seats. Hmmm…
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