Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process of redistricting must change. No political party's leadership should be able to stack the deck in its own favor. The redrawing of the political map must be achieved impartially. The Bureau of the Census can do the job. Districts should 1) encompass populations of roughly similar sizes within each state, 2) be contiguous and "star-shaped" (a line can be drawn from the center to any point on the border without exiting the district), 3) respect town borders whenever possible and 4) be drawn with the same basic criteria in every state...
...said that the school had only provided published studies, including data from the U.S. census. The ad's makers then drew their own conclusions, Blendon said. "All we gave [the sponsor] on that was the U.S. Census study," Blendon said...
...since 1991, at D.C. General and other institutions around the country, another story is emerging. The three infants with their mobiles, pitiful as they are, represent a sharp decrease from two years ago, when the daily census of abandoned babies ran as high as 25. "We used to have them in four or five rooms," says D.C. General's communications director, Linda Ivey, proudly. "Now there's only one nursery." New York City's Harlem Hospital Center reports that its daily count has plunged from 20 to three. At Grady Memorial in Atlanta, the annual total of boarder children fell...
...panel of federal judges ruled that the Louisiana state legislature went too far when it tried to create a second black-majority congressional district after the 1990 census. In the judges' view the resulting district, which zigzags in a thin line for 600 miles along the state's northern and eastern borders, was the product of impermissible racial gerrymandering. Now the map must be redrawn before the state's 1994 elections...
...nativist sentiment that foreigners are somehow inferior to the American- born may be the nation's oldest and most persistent bias. (Curiously, it was not until 1850 that the U.S. Census took note of where Americans were born.) Apart from slaves, Asians (principally the Chinese) suffered most from this prejudice. Seeking fortune and escape from the turmoil of the Opium Wars, Chinese first began arriving in California during the 1840s. Initially, they were welcomed. During the 1860s, 24,000 Chinese were working in the state's gold fields, many of them as prospectors. As the ore gave out, former miners...