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More Deaths Than Births Killing US Counties Like Coleman, Texas
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsColeman, Texas, lies in the vast empty reaches of the Texas range, like a lonely outpost at the junction of U.S. Highways 84 and 283 and Farm Road 93. If you were to stand at that crossroads, it would be hard to envision how populated the Lone Star state has become. Texas added more new residents in the past years than any state in the U.S. -- 4.3 million people in all. Virtually all of that growth occurred far to the east, beyond Interstate 35, the north-south freeway that bisects Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Laredo along the Rio Grande. Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston are the ...
US Hispanic Population Soars According to Census [VIDEO]
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Hispanic Population Passes 50 Million in US but Raises Question
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Hispanic population topped 50 million for the first time, new census data shows, as Latinos became the second-largest population group in the United States. The Census Bureau today released its final numbers for the 2010 census, which show how rapid growth of the Asian and Hispanic population dramatically transformed the U.S. into a more ethnically diverse country than it was 10 years ago. The swelling Hispanic population made up more than half the 27.3 million increase in population in the U.S. since 2000. While the nation's population grew by 9.7 percent in the past ...
Will New Orleans Regain Its Lost Children?
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWhen Tim Scanlan graduates from Holy Cross high school in New Orleans this spring, two-thirds of his classmates who started seventh grade with him two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit won't be there. The storm scattered them to new homes in different cities. Scanlan lost his best friend, childhood pals and his wrestling coach. He joined a handful of boys who returned and endured five years of rebuilding. Today, Scanlan is the school's student body president, captain of the wrestling team and valedictorian of the class of 2011. Life seems back to normal -- almost. "You look at a class of 61 ...
Redistricting Battles: Five States to Watch as Census Is Released
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsSo the battle begins. Neighborhood population data from the 2010 census were delivered this week to state leaders in the four states with the tightest deadlines for drawing new district boundaries, and were released publicly Thursday night. Virginia, New Jersey, Louisiana and Mississippi all have statewide elections scheduled in November. Next week, the U.S. Census Bureau plans to release neighborhood data for Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland and Vermont. Census data must be released for all 50 states by April 1 under federal law. Here's a look at five states where the battle to redraw ...
Did Arizona Immigration Policies Deprive State of Federal Dollars?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsArizona came out a winner last week when the Census Bureau released 2010 population figures. Or did it? The Grand Canyon State will gain a House seat to bring its total to nine when Congress is reapportioned before the 2012 election. But in the competition for billions in federal funding for Medicaid, education, transportation and other services, Arizona may turn out a loser. In a Huffington Post piece titled "Did Arizona Shoot Itself in the Foot?," political scientist Michael McDonald writes that Arizona may lose as much as $775 million in federal grants per year over the next decade ...
The Census Ratifies the Sunbelt's Supremacy and Buoys the GOP
By Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." That aphorism -- attributed to Mark Twain -- has been dramatically repudiated by Tuesday's initial release of statewide population data from the 2010 Census. The quest for mild winters remains the great constant of American demographics. For the first time in history, more than half of the nation's population (308,745,538) resides either in the South or in the warm-weather states of California, Arizona and New Mexico. Even though they had been long anticipated, the Census results (used to allocate House seats and, by ...
Census: Don't Blame Katrina for Louisiana's Loss of Clout
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Conventional wisdom holds that Hurricane Katrina's destructive powers have cost Louisiana one of its seven seats in Congress in the new census because thousands of people were forced to relocate. But it turns out that Katrina may not be to blame after all. Greg Rigamer, a demographer and president of GCR & Associates, a New Orleans consulting firm, said the state's growth was so sluggish in the past decade that it was on track to lose a seat in the House of Representatives and one of its nine electoral votes anyway. Between 2000 and 2005, the nation's population grew at a rate ...
2010 Census: US Growth Slowest Since Depression
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The number of Americans reached 308,745,538 people this year, rising 9.7 percent in the first decade of the 21st century for the slowest growth rate since the Great Depression, according to figures released today from the 2010 census. The 23rd decennial population count, required by the Constitution, will be used to divvy up 435 House seats for the 113th Congress, which will convene in 2013. As in recent reapportionments, states in the South and West will gain at the expense of those in the Northeast and Midwest. Since 1940, 79 seats in Congress have shifted from the older ...
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