Live Blogging the Census!

[saxitoxin]

Hella excited bros. Look forward to each census release since the 1820 one when I stayed up all day waiting for a transvestite courier to arrive on horseback from DC.

Highlights so far ...

• Population increased 27 million, from 281,421,906 to 308,745,538.
  
  Puerto Rico is being de-populated. They didn't say why. Chupaca-bros?

[saxitoxin]

• Texas grew the most and will get 5 additional votes in the Electoral College for the '12 presidential election.

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• Other winners ... Arizona, Utah, Georgia, South Carolina, Nevada

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• Losers ... Illinois, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey

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• 31% of people in New York use public transportation; next highest is Chicago at 12%

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• The average age of people of Haitian ancestry living in the U.S. is 38.

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• 13.3% of Americans are poor and 86.7% are not poor; Mississippi is poorest, New Hampshire is least poor

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• Census Bureau website has crashed. Guess they shoulda stuck with the tranny courier.

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• Census website still down ... but CNN made a chart:

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• Percentage growth was 9.7% - pacing Canada, double the UK and France but only 1/3 as much as Angola and Laos.

• Immigration is down.

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• Dag y'all - DRAMMMMAAAAA ... Abhi Sanka just posted to the Census' Facebook wall "Does the Census count changes in age groups, and if so, are there any significant shifts in how the population is distributed by age group?" and the Census replied "Age information is part of the redistricting file which will start being released in Feb 2011." Then he said, get this, "THANK YOU." (http://www.facebook.com/uscensusbureau) LOL! Do I detect some sarcasm?!!?

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• Montana has the largest percentage of immigrants born in Europe. Montana?!

• Jacques: Corrine, Paris has become so bleh. Let us move someplace more cosmopolitan.
  Corrine: Jacques, how about Wolf Point, home of rodeo star Marvin Brookman?
  Jacques: Let us depart!

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• Of those over 25 -
  30% have a university degree or higher.
  28% have completed some university but do not have a degree.
  30% have not attended university but have graduated high school.
  13% have not graduated high school.

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• the mean household income is $82,000
  26% earn in excess of $100,000
  48% earn between $35,000 and $100,000
  26% earn less than $35,000

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largest sources of immigrants were

• Philippines
  Cuba
  Mexico
  El Salvador
  Korea
  Vietnam

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Overall, science and engineering degree holders tend to be focused west of the Mississippi, those with liberal arts degrees east of the Mississippi.
Among those with university degrees, more than 40% of the population have degrees in a science or engineering field in

• Washington (state)
  Washington, DC
  California
  Colorado
  Virginia
  Maryland

[Night Strike]

Biggest headline: people are moving out of democratic states into republican states. Hopefully they don't keep those same values that have been tearing down the states they left.

[spurgistan]

My riposte to the above

I would presume that the impressive European presence in Montana has to do with climbers and other outdoorsy folk? Euros like that stuff. Also, if a French family found a job in Bozeman, it would seriously throw their demographics out of whack (it's funny, since nobody lives there)

All in all, food for thought.

[saxitoxin]

MOST CROWDED: New Jersey has become so crowded it almost has as many people per square mile as the Netherlands.

LEAST CROWDED: Montana - 7 people per square mile, on par with Namibia

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2010/ ... New-Jersey

Fun Fact: North Dakota is the only state with its own central bank.

I would presume that the impressive European presence in Montana has to do with climbers and other outdoorsy folk? Euros like that stuff. Also, if a French family found a job in Bozeman, it would seriously throw their demographics out of whack (it's funny, since nobody lives there)

They're all going to Kalispell to star-gaze at Clint Eastwood's summer home, Jane Fonda's summer home, etc.

Then they can't find their way out of Montana and end up staying. That's how Montana gets all their people. Easy to slip in, a pain to get out. (like my ex-g/f - OH SNAP, YO!)

[naxus]

[Phatscotty]

Biggest headline: people are moving out of democratic states into republican states. Hopefully they don't keep those same values that have been tearing down the states they left.

Oh, you know they went to the red states, demanding that they be more like the blue states they left.

Having blue state emotions and moving to a red state will land you in the psych-ward.

I guess they voted with their feet afterall

[HapSmo19]

All in all, food for thought.

Or shit for brains.

[Metsfanmax]

• Of those over 25 -
  30% have a university degree or higher.
  28% have completed some university but do not have a degree.
  30% have not attended university but have graduated high school.
  13% have not graduated high school.

• Of those over 25 -
  30%
  28%
  30%
  13%

101%

[InkL0sed]

• Of those over 25 -
  30% have a university degree or higher.
  28% have completed some university but do not have a degree.
  30% have not attended university but have graduated high school.
  13% have not graduated high school.

• Of those over 25 -
  30%
  28%
  30%
  13%

101%

they're obviously rounded

[Night Strike]

Biggest headline: people are moving out of democratic states into republican states. Hopefully they don't keep those same values that have been tearing down the states they left.

Oh, you know they went to the red states, demanding that they be more like the blue states they left.

I'm well aware. It's already been happening in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and is probably what happened to Colorado. People look at their voting patterns from the past few elections and think "oh, they're moving more to the left". No, in reality it's the people that have moved there after bankrupting California so they can do the same thing to more states. It worked so well in California that they have to move and try it again.

[Army of GOD]

• Of those over 25 -
  30% have a university degree or higher.
  28% have completed some university but do not have a degree.
  30% have not attended university but have graduated high school.
  13% have not graduated high school.

• Of those over 25 -
  30%
  28%
  30%
  13%

Please, next time, use

>green text

101%

[Metsfanmax]

• Of those over 25 -
  30% have a university degree or higher.
  28% have completed some university but do not have a degree.
  30% have not attended university but have graduated high school.
  13% have not graduated high school.

• Of those over 25 -
  30%
  28%
  30%
  13%

101%

they're obviously rounded

No, they're obviously rounded incorrectly.

[thegreekdog]

49.5% rounded up is 50%.
50.5% rounded up is 51%.
49.5% plus 50.5% is 100%.
50% plus 51% is 101%.

[Army of GOD]

49.5% rounded up is 50%.
50.5% rounded up is 51%.
49.5% plus 50.5% is 100%.
50% plus 51% is 101%.

Leave the math to math people, you lawyer.

[thegreekdog]

49.5% rounded up is 50%.
50.5% rounded up is 51%.
49.5% plus 50.5% is 100%.
50% plus 51% is 101%.

Leave the math to math people, you lawyer.

So I'm wrong? I'm so confused.

[john9blue]

ITT: a tax attorney schools an m.s. physics student in math

[Army of GOD]

49.5% rounded up is 50%.
50.5% rounded up is 51%.
49.5% plus 50.5% is 100%.
50% plus 51% is 101%.

Leave the math to math people, you lawyer.

So I'm wrong? I'm so confused.

You're not wrong, just leave it to the people who know math.










Also, learn to recognize internet sarcasm.

[karel]

Biggest headline: people are moving out of democratic states into republican states. Hopefully they don't keep those same values that have been tearing down the states they left.

whatever

[Night Strike]

Biggest headline: people are moving out of democratic states into republican states. Hopefully they don't keep those same values that have been tearing down the states they left.

whatever

Enjoy ignoring facts? Illinois and New York are states dominated by liberals, yet they lost people. Texas is a very conservative state and Florida has no state income tax. Both gained in population. Liberal states of California, New York, and Illinois have the largest state deficits in the country. Conservative states are either balanced or run surpluses. New Jersey was massively in a deficit, and a conservative governor has begun to restore order to their fiscal situation. Liberal spending policies have bankrupted the states that they have been living in, so now they're moving on to other states and naively thinking the same policies won't bankrupt those states.

[thegreekdog]

Texas and Florida also probably have the most foreign immigrants.

[Metsfanmax]

49.5% rounded up is 50%.
50.5% rounded up is 51%.
49.5% plus 50.5% is 100%.
50% plus 51% is 101%.

Leave the math to math people, you lawyer.

So I'm wrong? I'm so confused.

Your statement is correct, but in a nation of 308,745,538 people, in order for your statement to be relevant, the fractions would need to be exactly, say, 27.5%, 12.5%, or 29.5%. Since those percentages of 308,745,538 all include some fraction of a person, we can safely discount that possibility. Thus the rounding was done incorrectly.

[karel]

Biggest headline: people are moving out of democratic states into republican states. Hopefully they don't keep those same values that have been tearing down the states they left.

whatever

Enjoy ignoring facts? Illinois and New York are states dominated by liberals, yet they lost people. Texas is a very conservative state and Florida has no state income tax. Both gained in population. Liberal states of California, New York, and Illinois have the largest state deficits in the country. Conservative states are either balanced or run surpluses. New Jersey was massively in a deficit, and a conservative governor has begun to restore order to their fiscal situation. Liberal spending policies have bankrupted the states that they have been living in, so now they're moving on to other states and naively thinking the same policies won't bankrupt those states.

really dont care who moves to what state,it's not important....
only thing inportant that the census shows us,we have to many people

[Timminz]

49.5% rounded up is 50%.
50.5% rounded up is 51%.
49.5% plus 50.5% is 100%.
50% plus 51% is 101%.

Leave the math to math people, you lawyer.

So I'm wrong? I'm so confused.

Your statement is correct, but in a nation of 308,745,538 people, in order for your statement to be relevant, the fractions would need to be exactly, say, 27.5%, 12.5%, or 29.5%. Since those percentages of 308,745,538 all include some fraction of a person, we can safely discount that possibility. Thus the rounding was done incorrectly.

Here we go with rounding causing confusion again.

[tzor]

Enjoy ignoring facts? Illinois and New York are states dominated by liberals, yet they lost people.

We need to wait until they drill down to the county level for New York. New York (the state) isn't really "dominated" by liberals. Upstate is conservative (where came that mad man with the baseball bat who ran for governor) as is eastern Long Island (even though we still just barely voted for dyed in the wool liberal Tim Bishop ... but I digress).

Here is my gut take on New York; I'm going to bet my bottom dollor that the greatest population movement was first in the north and west where there is simply no damn economy left anymore. Industry has gone decades ago, farming is a road to nowhere and tourism has literally died on the vine. (I know a lot of famous "resorts" that have gone bankrupt over the years in upstate New York.)

The second place people are leaving from is Long Island. Simply put, property taxes, especially school taxes are insane. You cannot afford to live here anymore.

Now many of these factors were the result of "liberal" policies from both Democrats and Republicans alike (liberals so dominated the party here in New York that the "Conservative" party was created to try to keep the party more conservative - in New York fusion voting allows a candidate to be listed on more than one line), but it's not the liberals who suffer. The liberals aree still trying to drain the blood of the nearly dead conservative lands of the state ... they will suffer ... eventually.