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If Demography Is Destiny, Good News for Texas, D.C.

jimslag Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 11:42 AM

I have no problem with the millions of Hispanics coming in. They just want what our forefathers had - Opportunity for a better life. Make them citizens and as Obama says, let them pay their "fair" share. My great grandparents became citizens when they immigrated to the US, I think it just right that the new immigrants do the same.

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If Demography Is Destiny, Good News for Texas, D.C.

Demographics buffs get a special Christmas present every year courtesy of the Census Bureau: its annual estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

This gives demographers a chance to see where the nation is growing and where it is not, and to get an idea of the destination of immigrants and of the flow of people into one set of states and out of another.

Nationally, the Census Bureau estimates that the United States has grown from 308 million people when the Census was conducted in April 2010 to almost 313 million in July 2012,...

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