Here’s my crackpot theory about Angry White People (TM), spurred on by the insane rantings of insane people like Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh, refusing to fill out the census.
Follow my logic here:
If you don’t fill out the census, the population of your house, municipality, state, ethnic group, gender, etc. doesn’t get counted.
If you don’t get counted, you lose out when it comes time for congressional redistricting, transportation funding, government aid, and various other kinds of targeted, taxpayer-funded appropriations.
If you lose out on these benefits, someone else is getting your share, and will end up being disproportionately over-represented in all of these things.
Therefore, those people who are over-represented are the people who bothered to fill out the census.
Who is the government strongly encouraging to fill out their census so that they can stand up and be counted? Women, minorities, people in urban areas, illegal immigrants, etc.
Ergo, Angry White People (TM) don’t fill out the census, becoming disenfranchised at the expense of women, minorities, etc.
How does this benefit Angry White People (TM), you ask? It doesn’t. It makes life harder for them. They become Even Angrier White People (TM), now with even more racist paranoia! And since this all happens on the watch of a Democratic President, Congress, etc., you can be sure that the Republican National Committee will be inciting them to vote the bums out.
Thus, working-class Angry White People (TM) will continue to vote against their own self-interest, even as the government is doing more for the working class than anyone’s done in over 40 years. Meanwhile, people like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh get higher ratings, sell more advertising, and become even richer than they already are.
Care for some tea?