Florida, as we know, is decidedly not California. The two coastal giants, Nos. 3 and 1 among states in population, are competing for congressional seats and federal funding in the 2020 Census, and they’re going about it differently. California has budgeted more than $100 million and has more than two dozen people working to reach traditionally hard-to-count communities, such as Los Angeles County, with 88 cities, more than 1 million undocumented immigrants and with more than half its population speaking a language other than English at home.
