[TimCity2000]

Originally Posted by InlandWave

I have a bad feeling about Mobile and Birmingham, I imagine both cities are about to take MAJOR hit come May. Hopefully its more incentive for our "lovely" city council to annex West Mobile like we should've been doing. Unfortunately for Birmingham, they don't have unincorporated communities to tap into

annexing for the sake of annexing / increasing population doesn't make much sense to me.

however, if the residents of the area are for it, and it makes sense in terms of infrastructure / services / finances / etc, then that's a different story. For instance, every few years we hear talk that Fairfield could be absorbed by Birmingham, which I would be in favor of because it would reduce the number of municipalities in Jefferson County by one and it feels like a natural extension of Birmingham.

[OldBankhead]

It wouldn't matter if Birmingham annexed Fairfield, they wouldn't count them correctly either. Probably would be a net loss, ha.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/10/10837...t-data-quality

"The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a report the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday."

And...

"Disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic and interference by former President Donald Trump's administration raised alarms about the increased risk of the once-a-decade tally missing swaths of the country's population. COVID-19 also caused multiple delays to the bureau's Post-Enumeration Survey that's used to determine how accurate the census results are and inform planning for the next national count in 2030."

So, minority areas that don't generally vote Republican got the shaft, while areas that do got some extra lovin. Nice.