Posted on 07/15/2018 8:42:28 PM PDT by tom h
The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia analyzed Census Bureau population projections to estimate each states likely population in 2040, including the expected breakdown of the population by age and gender ... we see that, in fact, the [US] population will be heavily centered in a few states.
Eight states will have just under half of the total population of the country, 49.5 percent, according to the Weldon Cooper Centers estimate. The next eight most populous states will account for an additional fifth of the population, up to 69.2 percent meaning that the 16 most populous states will be home to about 70 percent of Americans ...
... [the] point is clear: 30 percent of the population of the country will control 68 percent of the seats in the U.S. Senate. Or, more starkly, half the population of the country will control 84 percent of those seats ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
From 38 million down to 36 or 37 millions. That’s still a LOT of people.
Maybe the ChiComs will do America a favor and nuke our ten largest cities.
The world is log normal.
Liberals want it to be like The Hunger Games, where the Capital (snobby, self-indulgent cross-dressers, mostly) control the Districts, which exist only to create goods, send most of them to the Capital, and offer tributes.
The fallacy here is that current population trends will persist and can be extrapolated into the future ad infinitum.
Florida natives, yours truly included, will migrate to the Rocky Mountain West as northerners and foreign nationals change our home state. We vacation there and own second homes there now, and are looking for a place to land.
AmExpat’s rule of demography: people go to live as adults where they vacationed as children. Want to know the future winners of the demographic derby? Look at the family vacation hotspots today. When I was growing up, everybody in South Florida went to North Carolina for vacation. A third of my high school class lives in that area now - - NC, East TN, Va.
Bingo!
Is this what is driving the move to break up California? The article says none of the large states will be on the West Coast.
People are moving here so much that U-Haul and the others have to pay people to drive the trucks back to where they came from.
Socialism is the most destructive weapon of mass destruction ever invented, and it attacks only fake Americans. Give cities unlimited power of taxation and regulation as long as it stays within city limits. They will soon look like they got nuked.
In many cases it's always the city slicker Democrats that choose the senators anyway. There's no such thing as a Democrat or Republican state, only Democrat cities, Republican territories, and the swinging suburbs.
Your tagline is the best. I loved that piece and use the line on Twitter now and then.
Those states arent incentivizing the lazy enough to move there. Guess theyll have double up their borrowing so they can give away more stuff...
Half the population is living in the 12 or so largest states, right now. Maybe the number is lower than that. Thanks tom h.
You want to complain about soemething, Washington Post? How about how Iowa and New Hampshire get to pick who gets to run for President?
That idea only predates Marx by two or more millenia. See Roman Empire.
Chicago is the economic engine powering the state. That is part of the reason that cities became big. Only a handful can be said to have culture and entertainment at the level of Chicago and don’t get me started on its pizza.
Do you know how stupid that remark is. World class stupid.
Per the wiki-wacky, using either the 2010 census figures or the July 1 2017 estimate, more than half live in the largest nine right now (excl non-voting DC and PR). I live in #10, btw.
And 222 seats of the House are held by those nine. Right now.
California
Texas
Florida
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
Georgia
North Carolina
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