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Census data spurred GOP's largest partisan edge in decades

by David A. Lieb
| August 13, 2021 12:03 AM

Fresh off sweeping electoral victories a decade ago, Republican politicians used census data to draw voting districts that gave them a greater political advantage in more states than either party had in the past 50 years, according to a new Associated Press analysis.

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