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Census finds 4 million new Texans, enough for 2 extra US House seats, though we expected more
Trump policies and pandemic may have led to undercount. With 29.2M, Texas added more people than live in 23 other states.
The Census Bureau s apportionment results are being released Monday.(Justin Sullivan / TNS)
Updated at 3:50 p.m.
WASHINGTON – Texas gained a modest two congressional seats in the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau announced Monday, making it the big winner nationwide but dashing expectations that torrid growth in the last decade would yield at least three more seats.
Texas’ population is 29,183,290. That’s up 15.9% – and just over 4 million.
Texas gains 4M residents, 2 congressional seats in Census
ACACIA CORONADO, Report for America/Associated Press
April 26, 2021
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas torrid growth over the past decade is paying off with a major boost in political clout two additional congressional seats and electoral votes deepening its already massive influence in the nation s politics.
New U.S. Census Bureau figures released Monday confirm the relentless population boom in America s biggest red state. Since 2010, Texas has gained nearly 4 million residents more than any other state in sheer numbers. For perspective, that s roughly the entire population of neighboring Oklahoma.
It is now home to more than 29 million people, second in population only to California, which has nearly 40 million. Texas has sustained double-digit percentage growth and increased congressional representation for 80 years, following in trend with its neighboring Southern states, the region with most grow
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Q: I noticed recently that Tennessee is now the number one location that Americans from other states are moving to. Texas used to top this list. Has the Lone Star State lost its luster?
Julie Jones, Great Bend, Kansas
A: It’s funny that you’ve raised this question, Ms. Jones, because the Texanist, too, recently came across that very same eyebrow-raising factlet while perusing U-Haul’s annual white paper on domestic migration patterns and was wondering what in tarnation might be going on. For the uninformed: every year U-Haul, the country’s largest DIY moving company, releases a report on the comings and goings of its one-way state-to-state customers. It’s a fairly anecdotal way to look at migratory trends across the country but is as good a way as any, the Texanist supposes, to determine how a particular state is faring in our nation’s fifty-contestant popularity contest.