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[snip] At the same time that the nation’s growing diversity and changing social attitudes are helping to swell the ranks of multiracial Americans at 10 times the rate of the white population, the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, son of a black man and a white woman, has brought new attention, curiosity and discussion to their experiences.

In the brilliant movie, "Idiocracy," centuries have passed and America is so dumbed down that a prostitute and a mediocre desk grunt are the smartest people in the world. The President is a pro wrestler and there's no more Congress. It's now the "House of Representin'." Well, apparently, we need not go to Hollywood make-believe or even the remote year 2500. Because the U.S. Census Bureau is already deigning to act like the House of Representin' in 2010 Yup, it's almost that time again. In about a year and a half, the U.S. Census will be taken. Illegal aliens will...

BALTIMORE (AP) As Maryland's white population shrinks, the number of minorities, and particularly Latinos, continues to increase, according to U.S. Census Bureau Figures released Thursday. The figures indicate non-Hispanic whites in Maryland decreased by 21,428 between 2006 and 2007, while the Latino population of all races increased by 17,779. Latinos now make up slightly more than 6 percent of the state's 5.6 million people, whose overall numbers inched up marginally in last year. Whites represent 63.6 percent of Maryland's population, African-Americans 29.5 percent and Asians 5 percent. ''Maryland has been changing for a while, and these numbers reflect that continuing...

The United States grew steadily more diverse last year, with Hispanics holding on to their rank as the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority group -- a trend with far-reaching implications for American politics and immigration policies. New Census Bureau figures show that the nation's Hispanic population grew by 1.4 million in 2007 to reach 45.5 million people, or 15.1 percent of the total U.S. population of 301.6 million. Blacks ranked as the second-largest minority group, at 40.7 million people. Racial and ethnic minorities account for more than one in three Americans, a new milepost ..

These are the kinds of stories that should be brought up when people tell you that they want the government to run all these Socialist ideas from the Democrats: This time around, the Census Bureau wanted to do things differently, ditching paper for handheld computers that Census workers could use to collect and transmit data from those who don't fill out the forms sent through the mail. It wasn't to be. Despite two years of development and a $600 million budget, the Census Bureau and Commerce Department recently decided that the $600 handhelds weren't up to the job...In the field,...

Hispanics, the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority group, now account for about one in four children younger than 5 in the United States, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released today. The increase from almost one in five in 2000 has broad implications for governments, communities and schools nationwide, suggesting that the meteoric rise in the Hispanic population that demographers forecast for mid-century will occur even sooner among younger generations. "Hispanics have both a larger proportion of people in their child-bearing years and tend to have slightly more children," said Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Hispanics in the United States rose by 1.4 million over a year's time to 45.5 million as of last July, with the most rapid increases in the South. The continuing growth could increase their influence, and this election year has focused more attention on how much the Hispanic population is increasing. Nine of the top 10 states with the highest growth rates in their populations were in the South, according to new census data released Thursday. South Carolina topped the list with an 8.7 percent increase, gaining 13,569 Hispanics, according to an analysis of...

A third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 percent do not speak English fluently, the Migration Policy Institute found. These immigrants make up half the Los Angeles workforce. It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California's fastest-growing occupations. The organization said that as the so-called baby boomers reach retirement age, a similar pattern will spread across the U.S. Ernesto Cortes, of the Industrial Area Foundation, a think-tank that specializes on social change said "The question is are we going to be a 21st century city or a Third World city with an elite group on...

Four Texas metropolitan centers were among the biggest population gainers as Americans continued their trend of moving to the Sun Belt in 2006 and 2007, according to Census Bureau estimates to be released Thursday. Dallas-Fort Worth added more than 162,000 people between July 2006 and July 2007, the most of any metro area. Three other Texas population centers - Houston, Austin and San Antonio - also cracked the top 10. Atlanta saw the second-largest population jump, at just over 151,000 new residents. Phoenix was third, with more than 132,000, followed by Houston, Riverside, Charlotte, N.C., Chicago, Austin, Las Vegas and...

A University of Florida economics professor finds Florida's population's is dipping to 30-year low. A new study has reaffirmed a growing demographic trend in Florida: The state is seeing its population growth slow to its lowest level in three decades. So says a University of Florida professor who reviewed building permits and residential electric customer data to draw projections on the state's population growth. ''The state has not experienced a decline of this magnitude since the mid-1970s, when we were in a national recession,'' said Stan Smith, an economist and director of UF's Bureau of Economic and Business Research. The...

Whites to be minority in U.S. by 2050, study shows Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 07:29 EST WASHINGTON — Immigration will drive the population of the United States sharply upward between now and 2050, and will push whites into a minority, projections by the Pew Research Center showed Monday. "If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005," an increase of nearly 50%, the study by the Washington-based think-tank said. More than 80% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving in the country and their...

Manhattan, which once epitomized the glamorous and largely childless locale for “Sex and the City,” has begun to look more like the set for a decidedly upscale and even more vanilla version of 1960s suburbia in “The Wonder Years.” Since 2000, according to census figures released last year, the number of children under age 5 living in Manhattan mushroomed by more than 32 percent. And though their ranks have been growing for several years, a new analysis for The New York Times makes clear for the first time who has been driving that growth: wealthy white families. At least half...

My brother-in-law got a 'farm census' in the mail. He is required to fill it out and return it by Feb 4, by law. The best part is that he lives in the middle of the DFW metroplex and has never been associated with agriculture. His daughter does have a pet sugar glider though. This form is large and 24 pages in legnth. I filled it out for him, basically the first 3 answers are 'none' and it said to skip to the backpage bif it was, and then 3 more questions to say we have no farm here. Now...

The Marines of Marine Wing Security Battalion 372 gather information from residents of the Sahl Hawran during a census, Dec. 27. Marines gathered demographic information including each resident’s physical characteristics, the location of their homes and family information. AL ASAD, Iraq (Jan. 21, 2008) -- The Marines of Marine Wing Security Battalion 372 have more to look out for than themselves and each other; the local Iraqis are relying on them to watch their backs too. They help support one local Iraqi village by patrolling through to ensure their safety, but also to ensure they have the means for...

ATLANTA - Bucking the trend in many other wealthy industrialized nations, the United States seems to be experiencing a baby boomlet, reporting the largest number of children born in 45 years. The nearly 4.3 million births in 2006 were mostly due to a bigger population, especially a growing number of Hispanics. That group accounted for nearly one-quarter of all U.S. births. But non-Hispanic white women and other racial and ethnic groups were having more babies, too. An Associated Press review of birth numbers dating to 1909 found the total number of U.S. births was the highest since 1961, near the...

ATLANTA - Bucking the trend in many other wealthy industrialized nations, the United States seems to be experiencing a baby boomlet, reporting the largest number of children born in 45 years. The nearly 4.3 million births in 2006 were mostly due to a bigger population, especially a growing number of Hispanics. That group accounted for nearly one-quarter of all U.S. births. But non-Hispanic white women and other racial and ethnic groups were having more babies, too. An Associated Press review of birth numbers dating to 1909 found the total number of U.S. births was the highest since 1961, near the...

A new immigrant — legal or illegal — is expected to enter the United States every 30 seconds by January, the U.S. Census Bureau says. The agency estimates this foreign influx will increase the total U.S. population by one person every 13 seconds. The U.S. also is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds by next month. The Census Bureau is projecting the nation's Jan. 1 total population will be 303,146,284 — a 0.9 percent increase from New Year"s Day 2007. The estimate is similar to recent annual population increases of about 1...

(We like barbecue, digital TV, soda — and cosmetic surgery) We crave the constant stream of music from MP3 players and the age-defying jolt of Botox injections. We drink more bottled water than milk, barbecue more than we bake and spend more than twice as much on prescription drugs as sporting goods. This is America in all its numerical glory, as revealed in the Census Bureau's 2008 Statistical Abstract of the United States. First published in 1878, the Abstract is the statistical guide to the "social, political and economic organization of the United States." The new edition, released today, features...

For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate has climbed high enough to sustain a stable population, solidifying the nation's unique status among industrialized countries. The overall fertility rate increased 2 percent between 2005 and 2006, nudging the average number of babies being born to each woman to 2.1, according to the latest federal statistics. That marks the first time since 1971 that the rate has reached a crucial benchmark of population growth: the ability of each generation to replace itself. "It's been quite a long time since we've had a rate this high," said Stephanie J....

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is fond of referring to California as a nation state. Population figures released Wednesday show that if the Golden State was its own country, it would be right there with Poland. The department calculated that the nation's most populous state had about 37,771,000 people as of July 1. It added 438,000 more residents in the previous year. Just more than 12 percent of the 301 million people in the U.S. live in California. Los Angeles County alone is home to nearly 10.3 million people, a population slightly higher than Michigan's. By contrast, mountainous Alpine County had just...

The new Almanac of American Politics is out, and statistics within the Bible for political junkies show a rapidly changing American political landscape. Population, statistics show, is draining from the Midwest and Northeast and pouring into southern, sunnier states. It will take a decade for the results to be evident, but one thing is sure: With changes as rapid as these, the electoral college math in 2012 will be dramatically different from what it is in 2008. Of the ten fastest-growing districts in America, not one cast their ballots for John Kerry in 2004. All but one, Rep. Nick Lampson's...

Step aside Moore and Taylor. Welcome Garcia and Rodriguez. Smith remains the most common surname in the United States, according to a new analysis released yesterday by the Census Bureau. But for the first time, two Hispanic surnames — Garcia and Rodriguez — are among the top 10 most common in the nation, and Martinez nearly edged out Wilson for 10th place.

Don't answer Census, don't face going to jailGovernment demands answers, but official confirms penalties not applied Posted: November 14, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Bob Unruh © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Another month is coming, and another 250,000 forms are being mailed out in the U.S. Census Bureau's perpetual American Community Survey, which demands responses to personal questions about a family's lifestyle, housing accommodations, work schedules, physical and mental disabilities, income and the like. That means roughly 250,000 times recipients will see the warning that participation is required by law, and there are penalties including fines for not answering each question. But,...

AR RAMADI, Iraq (Nov. 6, 2007) -- It can be hard to define who the enemy is in asymmetrical warfare, so Marines in Al Anbar are reaching out to Iraqis to find potential allies. As part of this effort, Marines are working with Iraqi Police to conduct census patrols. Marines from 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, attached to the U.S. Army’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Multi National Force-West, recently began a door-to-door census campaign in Ramadi. “We were trying to get familiar with the people who live in the neighborhoods we patrol through,” said Lance Cpl. Douglas...

EAGLE COUNTY - Robert Cuevas says he was one of two Hispanic kids in his entire fourth grade at Eagle Valley Elementary School.Cuevas, who is now the principal at Berry Creek Middle School, says things have obviously changed since the 1980s and 1990s, when he was an Eagle County student and Hispanics were a small minority. For the first time in the district's history, Hispanic students outnumber white students in the school district. Officials say 50 percent of the study body this year is Hispanic, and white students make up 48 percent. One of the biggest challenges for the school...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 — This Halloween, the Glindas, gladiators and harem boys of the Castro — along with untold numbers who plan to dress up as Senator Larry E. Craig, this year’s camp celebrity — will be celebrating behind closed doors. The city’s most popular Halloween party, in America’s largest gay neighborhood, is canceled. The once-exuberant street party, a symbol of sexual liberation since 1979 has in recent years become a Nightmare on Castro Street, drawing as many as 200,000 people, many of them costumeless outsiders, and there has been talk of moving it outside the district because of...

Big Government: Washington pundits moan about the "rich getting richer" on Wall Street. But new census data reveal the seat of wealth in this country has shifted to their own backyard. The nation's capital has replaced Silicon Valley and the New York area as the center of affluence in America. The wealthiest Americans are no longer just investors and entrepreneurs, but federal workers and contractors. There's something really rotten about this trend. How can the seat of government in a capitalist society double as its seat of wealth? The late Milton Friedman, who warned about the growing mix of government...

Population 'to hit 65m by 2016' Half the increase is projected to come from immigration Impact of a bigger population The population of the UK is set to increase by 4.4 million to 65 million by 2016, according to new projections. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that 2.1 million of the overall rise can be put down to immigration alone. Further projections say the population would reach 71 million by 2031 and 77 million in 2051. Forecasts of fertility, life expectancy and inward migration have all increased since they were last made in 2004. Estimates of the amount...

Top 5 Declining U.S. Markets Published on: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Written by: Elizabeth Smith Although the overall U.S. population grew by 6.39 percent between 2000 and 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, certain areas of the nation actually declined in population during that period. Many of those areas also experienced negative economic factors and job losses. An abandoned train station in Detroit, MichiganNuWire analyzed Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and divisions of MSAs with populations of more than one million to determine the Top 5 Declining U.S. Markets. Each of these markets experienced negative job growth between 2000 and...

TRENTON, NJ (AP) -- New Jersey's accelerating population loss is starting to have significant economic and fiscal consequences for the state [SNIP] The report found the state lost 231,565 people between 2002 and 2006, including 72,547 people last year. The latter was the fourth highest loss in the nation behind only California, Louisiana and New York. Meanwhile, North Carolina grew by 807,000 people over the four-year period, displacing New Jersey last year as the nation's 10th most populous state, the report stated. When lost income and sales taxes from the people who left New Jersey are considered, the population drain...

Immigrant-induced reapportionment is different from reapportionment caused when natives relocate to other states. Immigration takes away representation from states composed almost entirely of U.S. citizens and results in the creation of new districts in states with large numbers of non-citizens. The numbers are even larger in some districts — 43 percent of the population in California’s immigrant-heavy 31st district is made up of non-citizens, while in the 34th district, 38 percent are non-citizens. In Florida’s 21st district, 28 percent of the population is non-citizen, and in New York’s 12th district the number is 23 percent. At present it is not...

Illegals may give state more clout Undocumented population may give California more seats in Congress Illegal immigration is channeling political clout to California and other border states from the Northeast and Midwest, according to a new report that predicts that California's undocumented population will equate to two seats in Congress following the 2010 Census. The Connecticut report predicts that California, Arizona, Texas, Florida and New Jersey will gain seats in Congress after the next Census because of their illegal immigrant populations. Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, and Ohio will each lose a seat because they have relatively few undocumented immigrants. New...

The latest population statistics show immigrants are fueling population growth in Maryland and Virginia. The percentage of foreign-born people in Prince William County — site of heated debates on problems associated with illegal aliens — nearly doubled from 2000 to 2006, according to census data released yesterday. In 2000, 11.5 percent of the county's population was foreign-born, compared with 21.9 percent in 2006. The number of immigrants in the county who are not U.S. citizens increased from 58.4 percent in 2000 to 63.9 percent in 2006. Nearly half of county residents who speak a language other than English at home...

According to Census estimates, the number of blacks [in San Francisco] shrank from 13.4% of the population in 1970 to just 6.5% in 2005 — the biggest percentage decline in any major American city.

WASHINGTON - Immigrants and their children will account for more than half the country's population growth over the coming half-century, according to a study released Thursday. The examination of new census figures by the Center for Immigration Studies found U.S. population levels, currently around 300 million, will shoot up to 468 million by 2060. California alone could be home to more than 60 million. Immigrants - both legal and illegal - as well as their descendants are expected to make up about 105 million, or 63 percent, of the national increase. "It's important to understand where we're headed in population...

Immigration Could Add 100M to U.S. by 2060 Written by Randy Hall, CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor If both legal and illegal immigration continues at its current pace, the U.S. population will grow by 1.25 million per year and reach a net total of 468 million by 2060, according to a report issued Thursday by a Washington think tank. That increase of 167 million people over the next 53 years "is equal to the combined populations of Great Britain, France and Spain," said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), during a news conference at the National...

Maryland knocked New Jersey out of the top spot this year, while Mississippi and West Virginia were the poorest states in the Union. Maryland is now the wealthiest state in the union, as measured by median household income, according to the latest stats from the Census Bureau.

The Census Bureau ranks Brownsville as the most impoverished city in the nation, according to the bureau’s 2006 American Community Survey released on Tuesday. More than 40 percent of the city’s 171,000 residents live below the poverty line, the bureau’s figures show. The bureau’s poverty threshold for an individual is a $10,294 annual income. For a family of four it is $20,614. Despite the last-place standing, there are slight gains being made in this area. In 2005, the poverty level was 42.6 percent, compared to 40.6 percent in 2006. Median household income in Brownsville, the fourth lowest in the nation,...

The Census Bureau announced Tuesday that 36.5 million Americans are "poor." Presidential candidate John Edwards claims these 36.5 million Americans "do not have enough money for the food, shelter and clothing they need." According to Edwards, poverty is an appalling national "plague" forcing "one in eight of us" to live in "terrible" circumstances. But, if poverty means (as Edwards claims) a lack of nutritious food, adequate warm housing and clothing, then very few of the 36.5 million people identified as "poor" by Census are, in fact, poor.... According to the government's own data, the typical person defined as "poor" by...

Maybe this was talked about yesterday when the documents were published, but the "uninsured" is going to get a lot of play as we roll into '08. If you check the link for some of the breakdowns on the uninsured, you'll see that 38% of the total increase from 2005 to 2006 came from one group - NON-CITIZEN.Keep that in mind everytime you hear of Dim or the MSM talk about 47M Americans without healthcare insurance.

Having trended Democratic over recent decades, New York gave Democrats more to crow about in 2006 than most other states. The party re-elected Senator Hillary Clinton by a huge margin, replaced a retiring Republican governor with a Democrat, and picked up three previously Republican House seats. But even with an overwhelming majority in the state's Assembly - 107 of the 150 seats are held by Democrats - one prize stayed in Republican hands: The State Senate. With a slim 33-29 majority, Republicans are determined to hold the line in the upper chamber, and not just for the sake of the...

WASHINGTON – Immigration officials sharpened their message a day after being coy about whether they would agree to halt enforcement raids during the 2010 census. “We won't entertain any request to scale back our efforts,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Kelly Nantel said Friday. Census officials had planned to speak with immigration agents about curbing enforcement during the population count, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an interview earlier this week. Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them in the headcount,...

(EXCERPT) WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants. Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an Associated Press interview. Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census. But today's political climate is even more volatile on the issue of illegal immigration. Enforcement agents "have...

The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants. Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an Associated Press interview. Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census. But today's political climate is even more volatile on the issue of illegal immigration. Enforcement agents "have a job to...

08/16/2007 By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER / Associated Press The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants. Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an Associated Press interview. Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census. But today's political climate is even more volatile on the issue of illegal...

The horrific, execution-style killing of three teens in Newark last weekend has sparked widespread outrage and promises of reform from politicians, religious leaders, and community activists, who are pledging a renewed campaign against the violence that plagues New Jersey’s largest city. But much of the reaction, though well-intentioned, misses the point. Behind Newark’s persistent violence and deep social dysfunction is a profound cultural shift that has left many of the city’s children growing up outside the two-parent family—and in particular, growing up without fathers. Decades of research tell us that such children are far likelier to fail in school and...

In a further sign of the United States’ growing diversity, nonwhites now make up a majority in almost one-third of the most-populous counties in the country and in nearly one in 10 of all 3,100 counties, according to an analysis of census results to be released today. The shift reflects the growing dispersal of immigrants and the suburbanization of blacks and Hispanics pursuing jobs generated by whites moving to the fringes of metropolitan areas. From July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006, metropolitan Chicago edged out Honolulu in Asian population, and Washington inched ahead of El Paso in the number...

Developing.... Whites are now in the minority in nearly one in 10 U.S. counties...

According to 2006 Census estimates, the county is nearly 57 percent Hispanic, up from 47 percent in 2000. Neighboring Adams County quickly followed suit at 52 percent. Overall, Washington state's Hispanic population grew by 28 percent from 2000 to 2006. That makes it the fastest-growing minority population in a state that borders not Mexico, but Canada. Between 2000 and 2006, Pasco schools registered 3,700 new students - enough to fill almost a new school every year. The district has built five new schools since 1999, and 27 modular trailers substitute as classrooms outside the high school until a new one...

SACRAMENTO – If you think California is crowded now, just wait until 2050. The Department of Finance predicted Monday that California will have 59.5 million residents when the state reaches the mid-century mark – nearly 22 million more than today. Hispanics will make up 52 percent of the population in 2050, up from 36 percent currently. Whites, now 43 percent of the population, will drop to 26 percent, while Asians' share will grow by one percentage point to 13 percent and blacks will decline from 6 percent to 5 percent, according to the department's forecast. Hispanics are projected to become...