WASHINGTON - Massachusetts almost certainly will lose one of its 10 congressional districts after next year’s census, the result of a long-term population shift that is giving Southern and Western states more political power in Washington at the expense of the Northeast, say specialists who have been poring over data in advance of the 2010 count.
Long-term economic and demographic shifts in favor of warmer climates with less expensive housing are to blame for the state’s slower growth, and thus the loss of a congressional district, according to estimates. Massachusetts’ population grew by just 2.3 percent from 2000 to 2008, compared with 8 percent nationally, a disparity that is expected to continue next year and beyond.
Hmmm. What's missing from this analysis? Could it be, oh, TAXES? How about personal freedom? How about the state viewing the average productive worker as little more than its own private piggie bank?
Here's a thought: Stop treating the state's most productive workers as little better than chattel from which you extract taxes to buy votes with, and perhaps the state will stop hemorrhaging population?
That is all.
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5 comments:
I imagine if you run the numbers, you'll find that skyrocketing populations in the south & west have more to do with immigration and birth rate among minorities than they do with flight from Massachussetts. Nice try, though.
Please let it be Barney Frank that is re-districted out of existence.
You can't REALLY think Barry and the ACORNS (sounds like a 60's surfer band!) are gonna allow that to happen? Just watch, once they factor in the illegal aliens, and recount the thing a few times, the blue states will come out ahead of the red states.
Please, please, please don't allow Ted to manipulate the vote from the grave and change the state law on the succession of his senate seat. The dummies changed it to what it is now back in '04 and they f'd it up. Hold out for the election!!!!
Another big reason for this happening to MA and a lot of other states is that they also count illegals... So states like CA will have a HUGE jump... Estimates ive heard is that CA will gain as many as 12 seats...
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