Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Census missed as many as one million residents in its preliminary 1990 count of New York City's population, Mayor David N. Dinkins in announcing the challenge...
...YORK--New York City filed a formal challenge yesterday to the Census Bureau's headcount in the city in hopes of boosting the count--and preserving federal aid that's tied to population...
With the nation's big cities ridden by crime, smog and traffic snarls, Americans must be fleeing to the serenity of the countryside, right? Wrong. Preliminary statistics from the 1990 census indicate that over the past decade the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s was reversed. Rural areas may have lost as many as 1.4 million people, far more than demographers had predicted. By contrast, metropolitan areas along the California and Florida coasts have grown sharply...
...last week the Census Bureau completed its preliminary count for 1990, which shows that the country is draining people and wealth into the South and West, depleting rural areas and weakening the urban redoubts of the Northeast and Midwest. Bush's bright hopes for gathering more Republican strength in swelling Florida, Texas and California in the election just two months distant are now also tied to the shifting sands of the Middle East. Few modern Presidents have had a more difficult equation to balance. So far, Bush's balancing act has been masterly...
Southern cities are growing faster than others, and Southerners move more often than people raised elsewhere. The two fastest-growing groups in the South today are Hispanics and white Yankees. As first noted in the 1980 census, more blacks are moving south than are moving north. In the 1988 presidential election, nearly 50% of those who voted in the South were born elsewhere. The South is still poor, too poor. But while some of the shine has gone out of the Sunbelt, in 1988 the Rocky Mountain States replaced the South as the region with the lowest per capita income...