THURNING JAPANESE:

Did immigration law cost Arizona a seat in Congress?: Population growth in the state stalled in 2010 -- just as it enacted the toughest immigration law in America (Daniel Denvir, 1/05/11, Salon)

Many predicted that Arizona's crackdown on immigrants would cost the state in dollars and reputation. It may have also cost the state an extra seat in Congress.

When the final census numbers were released just before Christmas, Arizona was awarded a new seat in the House, thanks to its status as the country's second fastest growing state. As impressive as this seems, it was actually something of a letdown for the state, whose official census count for 2010 (6,392,017) was more than 200,000 people smaller than estimated just a year earlier. That disparity killed whatever hopes Arizona had of replicating the two-seat gain it posted after the last census, back in 2000.