There's a reason the Census Bureau is a quaisi-independent agency that reports directly to the Commerce secretary. Once every ten years, numbers from the census are used to draw the lines for Congressional districts. What makes the Census Bureau such a pivotal player, especially today, is that it is generally recognized the districts that contain high concentrations of minorities and illegal aliens are undercounted. This is not the fault of the Census Bureau who rely on thousands of local residents to help them in carrying out the door to door counting of people but rather the general mistrust of government that keeps people from applying for the temporary jobs offered as well as the relative safety of the canvassers in many neighborhoods where the undercounts are alleged.The census has been taken since the very early days of the republic and always in as non-partisan a manner as possible. Until now: The Capitol Hill publication Congressional Quarterly yesterday reported that the...(Read Full Post)