IT Problems Put Accuracy of Census at Risk, Say Government Auditors

[KMAN]

Imagine that... Another problem with another Government program

CNSNews.com - IT Problems Put Accuracy of Census at Risk, Say Government Auditors

 

[rightwinger]

Damn.....look at that

It's deleting all the Republican Records

 

[waltky]

We bein' overrun by Hispexicans `round here...

Census: Hispanic, Asian populations soar
25 Mar.`11 - The nation ended the first decade of the 21st century much the same way it did a century ago: as a strikingly more diverse and less rural nation.

The number of Hispanics surpassed the 50 million mark, growing 43% and accounting for more than half the national growth since 2000, according to the Census Bureau's first release of detailed 2010 national data. By contrast, the non-Hispanic population grew 5%. Hispanics now make up 16% of the USA's 308.7 million people. For the first time, they increased faster than blacks and whites in the South. Hispanics doubled in South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas.

"Not since the 1910 Census, when you saw waves of Eastern Europeans transform America … has such a change happened," says Robert Lang, urban sociologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "2010 brings the next step in the American story. This is the transformation of the U.S. into a post-European-dominated society." Sun Belt states continued to fuel most of the growth. The population center of the nation moved farther west and south to Texas County, Mo., 2.7 miles northeast of Plato (pop. 109). It's the fourth time in a row the center has been in Missouri, but it is drifting more to the south because of the pull of Texas and southeastern states.

How does the Census Bureau identify the population center?

"Imagine that we have conceptually a flat and weightless and rigid map of the United States," says Census Director Robert Groves. "And then all of us … weigh exactly the same. Then you sort of find the place where the balance is." More than 84% of population increases happened in the West and South. Western states have now surpassed the Midwest in population but it's the first decade that the South grew faster than the West, says Marc Perry, head of the Census population distribution branch. Four of the largest 10 states now are in the South (Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina).

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