Official US 2010 Census Results

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Odd choice of states.

Not really, those are the states that have state legislative elections this year, so they need to redistrict ASAP.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I think Virginia's stuff is getting posted here as it becomes available.

Also, in Mississippi, the black population grew eight times more than the white population.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Mmm, maps:

http://www.vpap.org/updates/show/672

Ìntra Hampton Roads population shifts are interesting.

Hampton declining, Portsmouth declining, Newport News flat, Chesapeake and Suffolk growing fast but Virginia Beach has more or less stopped growing and Norfolk is rebounding, growing marginally faster than VB.

Chesapeake and Suffolk (and Isle of Wight and York Counties) have experienced a lot of development in the past decade. Development has virtually stopped in Virginia Beach (there's land still available, but it's protected by a "green line"), and the other cities don't have any land left to develop on, except for the occasional redevelopment or small condo project.

I was a little surprised that VA-11 came in so overpopulated; I thought it was expected to be about even.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

District-level numbers from SSP:

District    Population    Deviation
MD-01    744,275    22,581
MD-02    700,893    (20,801)
MD-03    719,856    (1,838)
MD-04    714,316    (7,378)
MD-05    767,369    45,675
MD-06    738,943    17,249
MD-07    659,776    (61,918)
MD-08    728,124    6,430
Total:    5,773,552    

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Sucks to be Iowa, really. Looks like the only places that grew were the Des Moines, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids areas.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Arkansas is also up; it looks like bad news for the Democrats, since all of the counties along the Mississippi and the southern part of the state lost population, while the Walmartistan and the ring of Republican counties around Little Rock gained quite a bit.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Here are the CD numbers for Arkansas, Indiana, and Iowa:


Arkansas

Mean - 728,979

AR-01 - 687,694 (-41,285)
AR-02 - 751,377 (+22,398)
AR-03 - 822,564 (+93,585)
AR-04 - 654,283 (-74,696)

Indiana

Mean - 720,422

IN-01 - 705,600 (-14,822)
IN-02 - 679,254 (-41,168)
IN-03 - 723,633 (+3,211)
IN-04 - 789,835 (+69,413)
IN-05 - 809,107 (+88,685)
IN-06 - 676,548 (-43,874)
IN-07 - 676,351 (-44,071)
IN-08 - 694,398 (-26,024)
IN-09 - 729,076 (+8,654)

Iowa

Mean (5 districts) - 609,271

IA-01 - 596,443 (-12,828)
IA-02 - 620,856 (+11,585)
IA-03 - 642,116 (+32,845)
IA-04 - 609,487 (+216)
IA-05 - 577,453 (-31,818)

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I've also been looking at the state legislative data for Louisiana to see just how screwed the Dems are. Looks like New Orleans will be losing a State Senate seat, while Baton Rouge will be gaining one. The Republicans will probably also be able to squeeze at least an extra half a seat out of the territory east of Baton Rouge.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Anyone know when new Mexico is going to come out?  I want to know how close to majority-Hispanic the State is.

They're going to release everything by April 1.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Wisconsin seems to be holding people rather better than similar areas in neighbouring states, both comparing the rural southwest to rural Iowa and Illinois, and Milwaukee to other Great Lakes industrial cities.

Milwaukee lost a little bit of its population, but, yes, it was no Cleveland.   Of the Great Lakes states, Wisconsin might be the least dependent on manufacturing - that's my sense of the state, though I don't know if there's data to actually back up my impression.

Actually Wisconsin is second in the nation by % of adults employed in manufacturing. But Milwaukee's flagship industry is less vulnerable to the replacement of workers by machines because, well, it is the replacement of workers by machines.

Yeah, maybe not.  I would have expected Ohio to rank higher.  For whatever reason, traveling through Wisconsin doesn't seem to give the same depressing feeling you get traveling through Upstate New York, Northern Ohio or Michigan.

That's because they have beer to dull the pain.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

FL-03, Corrine Brown's gerrymandered monstrosity, is now majority-black.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

New Hampshire won't even need to change its lines. The districts are only 254 people from the mean:

NH-01    Guinta (R)    657,984    (254)
NH-02    Bass (R)    658,486    254

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I'm a little surprised that Charleston lost population. I would think if anywhere in the state (outside of the exurbanizing eastern panhandle) would be able to avoid bleeding people, it would be the state capital.

What's up with Gilmer's growth?