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Only in small, dense, coastal rabidly liberal parts of the country is it controversial. What do you want to bet it's only even remotely an issue in blue areas.
it's a legit question.........see, liberals used the census to estimate how many illegals are here and use in their argument that the number has gone down. (that's B.S.)
Now that the question is put directly in the census to finally find out how many citizens we have (legal) and the left goes wild.....like they don't want the public to know how many illegals are here, especially the Democrats in California.
I get both sides of this and both sides make sense however when looking at this issue, you have to look at what the point of a census is supposed to be. Is it to count citizens or people? I believe it's supposed to count the total number of people, not just citizens. If that is the objective, then you HAVE to do everything in your power to make sure that objective is fullfilled to the highest quality possible. By putting a citizenship question on it, you KNOW the results are not going to be accurate because in this climate, with this President, people are either going to avoid it, not reply or flat out lie. That defeats the whole purpose of doing it.
A citizenship question seems to be aimed at reducing the electoral power of populated districts with high percentage of non citizens. Even if non citizens don't get to vote, Congress is still apportioned to represent them.
The citizenship question was on Clinton's 2000 long form census. See question 13: (This is not my questionnaire. It was my uncle's and he never turned it in)
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