Texas News Adding a Citizenship Question to the Census Could Hurt Texas KWBU | By Texas Standard Published March 28, 2018 at 12:14 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:23 yooperann/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) A census-taker at work. Decisions about government funding and political representation are made based on population, not citizenship. If Texans don’t participate in the census, the state could lose out.