Every ounce mattered: How Minnesota saved eighth seat in U.S. House A margin of 26 people helped state beat out N.Y. May 1, 2021 5:46pm Text size Copy shortlink:
XP Lee hadn t thought much about the census before attending a 2018 meeting on the nationwide population count for his job with the city of Brooklyn Park.
But he sat up when state officials said Minnesota came within 15,000 people of losing one of its eight seats in Congress a decade ago and things were looking even tighter now.
He figured there were thousands of people undercounted in his own Hmong community. I realized you only get this one opportunity every 10 years, said Lee, who decided to leave his job with the city to work on statewide census efforts.