The 6 biggest takeaways from the census reapportionment

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After months of waiting and delay, the US Census Bureau finally released its final count of the country's population and, with it, the states that will gain -- and lose -- congressional seats for the next decade.
The decennial process of reallocating the 435 House districts among the 50 states using population growth (and loss ) -- known as reapportionment -- is the official beginning of each state's redistricting process, in which the lines of each congressional seat are redrawn to deal with the census results.
The top line? A half-dozen states will gain at least one new seat in 2022, with Texas the lone state -- see what I did there? -- to gain two districts. Other states -- predominantly in the upper Midwest -- will lose a House seat for the next decade.

* The South and West continue to seize more and more population (and power) ...
* ... while the Rust Belt continues to leak seats:
* The electoral map doesn't change all that much:
* The long California boom is no more:
* Texas is the new political superpower:
* Little Rhode Island isn't so little!: