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Since the Constitutional purpose of the Census is to reapportion the seats in the House of Representatives, it was fitting that CBS and ABC should both assign their Congressional correspondents, Nancy Cordes and Jonathan Karl, to cover the top line results from 2010: 12 seats will change states compared with 2000, with all the new seats assigned to the south and the west away from the north and midwest. Hurricane Katrina caused the exception to that trend, transferring population within the sunbelt, out of Louisiana and into Texas.
NBC's Tom Costello took more of a demographic approach, noting that the last decade saw the smallest population growth rate, at 9.7%, since the Great Depression. Michigan even suffered depopulation. As for that migration of people from northeast-and-midwest to west-and-south--that trend has been in place for a hundred years.
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