WASHINGTON – Missouri’s congressional districts will contain more people, the total number of districts will not change and the nation added more than 26 million residents, based on U.S. Census Bureau statistics released Monday. “The constitutional purpose of the census is congressional apportionment, which is the process of distributing … seats in the U.S. House of Representatives amongst the states every 10 years in a way that is proportional to each state’s population,” acting Census Bureau Director Dr. Ron S. Jarmin said in a live internet video report. Missouri will keep the present eight seats, rather than losing a seat, as occurred after the 2010 count. Missouri is among 37 states that will experience no change in seats. Over the past 70 years, Jarmin said, Southern states had increased in population and that trend continued in the past decade. Texas added two seats, and Florida and South Carolina each added one. Colorado, Montana and Oregon also added a seat. “Since 1940,…