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January 3, 2012 in Region
Montana’s population estimated to pass 1 million
HELENA, Mont. — State officials estimate that Montana’s population has surpassed 1 million people for the first time.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s office said today that state Census and Economic Information Center officials believe Montana passed the milestone sometime between November and December.
Schweitzer’s office says the estimate is based on growth trends between the 2000 and 2010 Census counts, along with recent population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and two other independent analyses.
The 2010 Census put Montana’s population at 989,415, a 9.7 percent increase from 2000.
If the state has passed the 1 million mark, that leaves just Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming as states having fewer than a million people.
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lowtechmaster on January 03 at 4:19 p.m.
Many cities have far more people than the state of Montana. What happened to one person, one vote?
Al_Loysius on January 03 at 4:35 p.m.
You are forgetting that some cities therefore have more congressional representatives than Montana (which has only had one for the last 30 years). The principle of keeping population and congressional representation proportionally equal is why we have a census every 10 years as specified in the Constitution. Each congressional district as of the last census had a population of between 500k to 900k. The courts have never required “one person, one vote” to be based on mathematical precision. There are usually a handful of court challenges every 10 years, but most go nowhere.
Don’t forget your HS civics on the compromises that went into forming the consistution in 1787. Big states got one house of Congress based on population. Smaller/ rural states got one house of Congress based on all states being equal (thus each state gets 2 senators).
Bruce (aka thatoneguy) on January 03 at 5:08 p.m.
Maybe I’m reading this after the article was updated or something, but I don’t see anything in it about votes?
force_vector on January 03 at 5:36 p.m.
Californians…….a virus that spread through the mountain west.
WillyPeter on January 05 at 8:08 a.m.
fv, we all know you’re right….:-(.. “There goes the neighborhood!!”