Fastest growth found in 'red' states
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From USA Today (another of those great 'un-biased' media sources -- ha! {inside swipe at one of those anti-MRC people})
Fastest growth found in 'red' states
Wed Dec 22, 6:21 AM ET
By Haya El Nasser and Paul Overberg, USA TODAY
Robust population growth continues to sweep the nation's Southern and Western states, according to estimates released Wednesday by the Census Bureau.
If the trend continues at its current pace, states in the Northeast and Midwest that have been population powerhouses since the 19th century will lose their dominance to Sun Belt states by 2010. (Related chart: Population and population trends by state)
New York, now the third most populous state, will likely be overtaken by Florida in five years. New Jersey, the 10th-largest state, could be passed by North Carolina in three.
"By 2010, none of the three most populous states will be in the North," says Robert Lang, director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech.
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The population trends show that economic and political power is shifting to states attracting suburbanites from congested, densely populated areas, says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
The 10 fastest-growing states - from No. 1 Nevada to No. 10 New Mexico - are all in the West and South. President Bush (news - web sites) won nine of them in November. The exception was Delaware, ranked eighth. Delaware is classified as a Southern state by the Census Bureau.
Seats in the House of Representatives are reallocated every 10 years to reflect population shifts. The next round will come after the 2010 Census.
Based on the latest population estimates, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana each would lose a House seat, according to Kim Brace, president of Election Data Services, a Washington D.C., consulting firm that specializes in the Census and redistricting. Arizona, Florida, Texas and Utah each would gain a seat, he says.
"It's the New America," Frey says. "It's taking population and political clout from the highly urbanized Old America."
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... more at the linked article
uh oh Blue staters! The 'red' states are growing too quickly, and that domination you once had is slipping away faster and faster...
Hope you few remaining 'blue staters' have fun while you can. With the exodus of many to Canada, and this great news about how people in 'red states' are re-populating quicker than rabbits bought home from a pet store, your days in anything even close to a majority are getting more and more numbered.
Watch the 48% shrink more and more while the NASCAR watching, bible-thumpin' rednecks and unwashed uneducated people in Jesus Land -- link here: who can at least properly list the spelling of our candidate in the electoral college -- really starts out pacing you and running roughshod over your civil rights, shoves Christianity down your throat and forces everyone to say the pledge of allegiance to God, rather than under God.
Man, life for blue staters ain't gonna be fun in the next several years.
Fastest growth found in 'red' states
Wed Dec 22, 6:21 AM ET
By Haya El Nasser and Paul Overberg, USA TODAY
Robust population growth continues to sweep the nation's Southern and Western states, according to estimates released Wednesday by the Census Bureau.
If the trend continues at its current pace, states in the Northeast and Midwest that have been population powerhouses since the 19th century will lose their dominance to Sun Belt states by 2010. (Related chart: Population and population trends by state)
New York, now the third most populous state, will likely be overtaken by Florida in five years. New Jersey, the 10th-largest state, could be passed by North Carolina in three.
"By 2010, none of the three most populous states will be in the North," says Robert Lang, director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech.
...
The population trends show that economic and political power is shifting to states attracting suburbanites from congested, densely populated areas, says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
The 10 fastest-growing states - from No. 1 Nevada to No. 10 New Mexico - are all in the West and South. President Bush (news - web sites) won nine of them in November. The exception was Delaware, ranked eighth. Delaware is classified as a Southern state by the Census Bureau.
Seats in the House of Representatives are reallocated every 10 years to reflect population shifts. The next round will come after the 2010 Census.
Based on the latest population estimates, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana each would lose a House seat, according to Kim Brace, president of Election Data Services, a Washington D.C., consulting firm that specializes in the Census and redistricting. Arizona, Florida, Texas and Utah each would gain a seat, he says.
"It's the New America," Frey says. "It's taking population and political clout from the highly urbanized Old America."
...
... more at the linked article
uh oh Blue staters! The 'red' states are growing too quickly, and that domination you once had is slipping away faster and faster...
Hope you few remaining 'blue staters' have fun while you can. With the exodus of many to Canada, and this great news about how people in 'red states' are re-populating quicker than rabbits bought home from a pet store, your days in anything even close to a majority are getting more and more numbered.
Watch the 48% shrink more and more while the NASCAR watching, bible-thumpin' rednecks and unwashed uneducated people in Jesus Land -- link here: who can at least properly list the spelling of our candidate in the electoral college -- really starts out pacing you and running roughshod over your civil rights, shoves Christianity down your throat and forces everyone to say the pledge of allegiance to God, rather than under God.
Man, life for blue staters ain't gonna be fun in the next several years.
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