The Census Bureau announced that the United States has 308,745,538 earlier this year. More people live west and in the South. NY continued its long relative decline population wise, and will lose two Congressional seats:

By that new count, Texas will gain four new seats, Florida will gain two, while New York and Ohio each lose two. Fourteen other states gained or lost one seat. The gainers included Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and Nevada, and the losers included Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Louisiana.

Regionally, the northeast grew 3.2%, the Midwest grew 3.9%, the South grew 14.3% and the West grew 13.8%. The electoral map has changed for presidential races, with a net loss of 16 electoral votes in the States Obama won in 2008. The US News and World Report blog argues, counterintuitively, that the shift is good for Democrats because the “Republicans have a problem with minority voters.”