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...postapocalyptic scenario? Hardly. But this grim vision must cross Governor Tom Vilsack's mind when he looks at Iowa's demographic trends. The population, 96% white, is aging at an alarming rate, with younger people moving away and those who remain too old to work the farms and factories. By 2020, 20% of Iowans will be 65 or older. And even if every high school student were to stay, the work force would still decline 3% in the next five years...
...Vilsack has a solution: he wants to give Iowa an injection of new blood, in part by attracting immigrants to the state. It may seem an innocuous idea, but in Iowa it is highly controversial...
...them Hispanic. The 2000 Census figures released last week show that Hispanics, now poised to replace African Americans as the nation's largest minority group, saw their numbers explode in Midwestern states like Wisconsin in the 1990s, while Iowa enjoyed an increase of less than 1% over that time. Vilsack wants to change that by accelerating the arrival of Hispanics and other immigrants...
...says it's a matter of survival. "To give you a sense of the magnitude of the problem," Vilsack says, "the fastest growing segment of our population is people over...
...Moines Country Club had never seen anything like it. For a week in July, more than 250,000 Iowans, including Governor Tom Vilsack, came in droves to applaud, cheer and gawk at the stars. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED called the event, the 20th Senior U.S. Open golf tournament, "the biggest thing to hit the state since Pope John Paul II's visit," which happened 20 years earlier. The mere arrival in town of Arnold Palmer, about to turn 70, made headlines in the statewide newspaper, the Des Moines Register...