Kenneth Prewitt:

Well, in those states, they will still be under-counted, and they will not have political voice in that respect.

Let me just say it this way. We have never had a polarized census, one in which the public can experience as, oh, there's a Democratic side and a Republican side. I think that's a very dangerous place for the country to be. I think this census has always been — the Census Bureau is not political.

It's always been — the numbers, of course, are political, but not the process of counting the American people. And I think that what we're stepping into is a condition where we're going to polarize the census. And that's not healthy. And I can imagine a lot of people not being as cooperative as they might have otherwise been.