We need to file the census forms so we can fix it so the census isn’t quite so important anymore.

Via Memeorandum, conservative areas aren’t filing their census forms.

File this under “problems that we really should have seen coming”: conservatives, egged on by the likes of Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), declining to return census forms and possibly shrinking the political power of states like Texas.

As I wrote over at FoxPolitics.net today, the Census Bureau wants us to think we need to send in the forms so we get our fair share of federal money.

That’s a problem. When we’re scraping and straining just to get a little more attention from Big Daddy Government, then Government has grown too Big for it’s Britches.

But. If Republican parts of the country end up looking smaller than Democrat areas of the country because we don’t send in our census forms, that could put Republicans at a disadvantage, future-congressional-election-wise.

So fill out the damn forms and put them back in the mail. I’m looking at you, Texas.

On the other hand, should someone like me, who lives in a more-blue-than-red state, consider not turning in the form? The better to prevent Democrat politicians from gaining more ground?

Nah. Too cute. Besides, I already did.