1. Immigration is the biggest force behind the nation's racial and ethnic diversity.
2. The country is getting uniformly older.
3. Big states will keep getting bigger -- especially in Congress.
4. The census is the main source of information about our population.
5. New technology gives us much more demographic data than the census can.
This blog serves the our introductory course on American politics (Claremont McKenna College Government 20) for the spring of 2012. During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of American politics, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Census
At the Washington Post, demographer William Frey lists five myths about population and the census:
Census forms go out in a few weeks. Where do you fill out yours? Watch:
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