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Wednesday, January 20, 2010


Remember a few years ago when Katrina sank New Orleans and a bunch of people moved to Houston that were never going to leave? Well guess what? They didn't leave.
Texas could add four congressional seats following the 2010 Census because of a population jump partly linked to Hurricane Katrina, demographers say.

Demographer William Frey with the Brookings Institution looked at population growth rates from the first half of the decade.

Frey predicts Texas, which now has 32 U.S. House members, will gain four seats, in part because of Katrina, the Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday. The one-a-decade count also helps divvy federal funds.
FOUR congressional seats? That's a lot more than 250,000 people, but it's not just Katrina that draws people to Texas.



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