 If you're in prison where does the census count you as living? Do you live where you were before you got sent to prison or do you live in the prison and outside of four states? New York, California, Maryland and Delaware you count as living in the prison not where you came from So that means you have a county with maybe 700 people in it, but it has a prison So that has like 3,000 extra people in it, correct? Right exactly who can't vote but count and now do they not vote and count but they tend to be disproportionately Hispanic and black from the cities so disproportionately liberal Democratic voters who now have been moved to Republican districts right and so it beefs up the Republican rural vote it's incredibly boring right census enumeration yet it leads state reps across the country to really powerfully fight reform because if they if reforms happen in prison strength they'll lose their seats and the parties will lose their seats right I named the states because it's not a random sample right California, Delaware, Maryland and New York for the bluest dates in the country