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Adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census would cost some states their congressional seats

  • Written by Dudley Poston, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
An envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 census.AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith

A partisan battle is brewing over the 2020 census.

In March 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross instructed the U.S. Census Bureau to add a new question to the 2020 questionnaire, asking...

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