The census heroes saved you a seat, Minnesota.
The 2020 census was about to decide whether there were enough Minnesotans to justify eight seats in Congress. The odds were against us. The population maps were against us.
Somebody needed to do something. So almost everyone did.
Millions of Minnesotans took five minutes out of the pandemic to be counted. The last 26 of them or the first 26 of them, or you and 25 of your friends saved the Eighth Congressional District.
The state that never takes the last bite of anything snagged the last available seat in the U.S. House. Because the margin turned out to be so close, it really feels like everyone who worked on this did their part to get us just over the finish line, said Minnesota s delighted state demographer, Susan Brower, who will use all this new census data to start figuring out who we are, where we are and what we will need over the next decade. I ve been getting so many just elated e-mails from everyone who worked so ha