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Download full textLisa Neidert; Reynolds Farley; Jeffrey Morenoff – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2025
This article traces the history of census undercount and its importance to civil rights. The Constitution mandates a census and calls for Congress to use the results to apportion seats in Congress and the Electoral College. A substantial undercount in the census will misallocate congressional and electoral college votes. More recently,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Civil Rights, Legislators, Disproportionate Representation
