by Peter Wagner, October 26, 2008
The New York Times‘ coverage of how the Census Bureau’s prison miscount harms rural voters is getting a lot of play in blogs, including on Talkleft, Legal Ruralism, Data Detectives, and Geography101 plus a followup on Geography 101.
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