Redistricting favoring big cities?

[jimrtex]

I haven't seen detailed numbers, but several people have said the 2010 census favors larger cities and urban areas.

Anybody else hear this?

I did notice that the population for D.C. jumped about 5% (the first increase in decades), but D.C. isn't a state.

Maybe it only appears to favor big cities because of the fact that the 2000 census deliberately skipped so many urban areas.

Also, if the redistricting doesn't accommodate the cities' growth, will there be a lawsuit to remedy it? And will the new census figures make some Republican-leaning states lean Democratic?

Most are no longer declining, and 20 of the 50 largest are growing faster the country as a whole.  The following is based on census estimates projected forward to the 2010 census.  These estimates do include boundary changes through 2009.

1	New York	4.4%
2	Los Angeles	2.7%
3	Chicago	-1.6%
4	Houston	14.4%
5	Phoenix	19.8%
6	Philadelphia	2.5%
7	San Antonio	18.2%
8	San Diego	6.2%
9	Dallas	9.0%
10	San Jose	6.6%
11	Detroit	-3.0%
12	San Francisco	4.2%
13	Jacksonville	9.6%
14	Indianapolis	3.0%
15	Austin	16.0%
16	Columbus, OH	6.8%
17	Fort Worth	33.5%
18	Charlotte	23.0%
19	Memphis	-1.6%
20	Boston	7.7%
21	Baltimore	-1.3%
22	El Paso	10.2%
23	Seattle	8.7%
24	Denver	8.8%
25	Nashville-Davidson	10.2%
26	Milwaukee	1.5%
27	Washington	4.0%
28	Las Vegas	15.0%
29	Louisville/Jefferson	2.3%
30	Portland	6.3%
31	Oklahoma City	10.1%
32	Tucson	10.4%
33	Atlanta	27.7%
34	Albuquerque	17.5%
35	Kansas City, MO	8.9%
36	Fresno	11.0%
37	Mesa	13.3%
38	Sacramento	11.8%
39	Long Beach	-0.5%
40	Omaha	10.9%
41	Virginia Beach	1.5%
42	Miami	19.9%
43	Cleveland	-9.3%
44	Oakland	1.5%
45	Raleigh	37.2%
46	Colorado Springs	9.3%
47	Tulsa	-0.7%
48	Minneapolis	1.2%
49	Arlington, TX	12.2%
50	Honolulu	1.0%

[jimrtex]

Among mid0sized cities, 26 of 50 are growing faster than the country.

51	Wichita	5.8%
52	St. Louis	2.0%
53	New Orleans	-27.5%
54	Tampa	12.5%
55	Santa Ana	0.1%
56	Anaheim	2.5%
57	Cincinnati	0.6%
58	Bakersfield	32.0%
59	Aurora, CO	15.8%
60	Toledo	0.4%
61	Pittsburgh	-6.1%
62	Riverside	12.8%
63	Lexington-Fayette	13.1%
64	Stockton	14.9%
65	Corpus Christi	4.6%
66	Anchorage	9.1%
67	St. Paul	-2.0%
68	Newark	1.7%
69	Plano, TX	18.0%
70	Buffalo	-7.2%
71	Henderson, NV	35.7%
72	Fort Wayne	1.2%
73	Greensboro	11.7%
74	Lincoln	11.1%
75	Glendale, AZ	10.8%
76	Chandler, AZ	33.7%
77	St. Petersburg	-1.5%
78	Jersey City	0.9%
79	Scottsdale, AZ	13.7%
80	Orlando	21.3%
81	Madison, WI	11.4%
82	Norfolk	-0.7%
83	Birmingham	-4.3%
84	Winston-Salem	13.0%
85	Durham	20.8%
86	Laredo	24.4%
87	Lubbock	12.3%
88	Baton Rouge	-0.6%
89	North Las Vegas	84.7%
90	Chula Vista, CA	23.3%
91	Chesapeake, VA	10.7%
92	Gilbert, AZ	81.6%
93	Garland, TX	1.4%
94	Reno	17.6%
95	Hialeah, FL	-3.9%
96	Arlington, VA	13.6%
97	Irvine, CA	37.1%
98	Rochester, NY	-5.2%
99	Akron	-4.2%
100	Boise City	4.4%

[jimrtex]

Mid-small 13 faster than country.

101	Irving, TX	5.6%
102	Fremont, CA	-0.7%
103	Richmond, VA	3.4%
104	Spokane	3.7%
105	Modesto	3.7%
106	Montgomery	0.5%
107	Yonkers	1.8%
108	Des Moines	0.0%
109	Tacoma	2.6%
110	Shreveport	-0.0%
111	San Bernardino	4.0%
112	Fayetteville, NC	-0.6%
113	Glendale, CA	0.1%
114	Augusta-Richmond, GA	-0.3%
115	Grand Rapids	-2.1%
116	Huntington Beach, CA	1.3%
117	Mobile	-2.0%
118	Newport News	6.7%
119	Little Rock	4.9%
120	Moreno Valley, CA	34.5%
121	Columbus, GA	2.2%
122	Amarillo	9.3%
123	Fontana, CA	24.5%
124	Oxnard, CA	7.8%
125	Knoxville	4.8%
126	Fort Lauderdale	7.6%
127	Salt Lake City	0.4%
128	Worcester	6.7%
129	Huntsville, AL	13.0%
130	Tempe, AZ	12.6%
131	Brownsville, TX	22.0%
132	Jackson, MS	-4.8%
133	Overland Park, KS	13.6%
134	Aurora, IL	16.5%
135	Oceanside, CA	5.4%
136	Tallahassee	13.8%
137	Providence	-1.7%
138	Rancho Cucamonga, CA	30.1%
139	Ontario, CA	7.0%
140	Chattanooga	8.6%
141	Santa Clarita, CA	7.1%
142	Garden Grove, CA	0.3%
143	Vancouver, WA	12.0%
144	Grand Prairie, TX	25.0%
145	Peoria,AZ	41.4%
146	Sioux Falls	23.5%
147	Springfield, MO	3.6%
148	Santa Rosa, CA	4.6%
149	Rockford	4.0%
150	Springfield, MA	3.1%

[jimrtex]

Wow! Look at Boston!

And Tulsa is one of few big cities to shrink?

Wow. Just wow.

Tulsa lost 12K between 2000 and 2005 and gained 8K from 2005 to 2009.  The projection assumed constant change from 2000 to 2009, so it will be low.  Tulsa is pretty hemmed in by suburbs which all grew strongly (Broken Arrow, Jenks, Bixby, Owasso, Glenpool)