# On vitriol and the state of America

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**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-vitriol-and-the-state-of-america/835295 "2019-06-10T13:11:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-vitriol-and-the-state-of-america/835295/138 "2019-06-11T21:21:48Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> … he promotes the change to the Census to exclude non-citizens even though the numbers represented by the Electoral College are Constitutionally based on persons, not citizens and money distributed by Congress goes to states based on population, not citizenship. …

The “change to the Census” is merely to ask if people are citizens. His administration is not proposing that we “exclude non-citizens” from the census count or population totals.

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