Posted on 03/22/2007 12:24:45 PM PDT by sbMKE
If you can imagine a typical baseball crowd leaving Miller Park and never returning, then you can grasp the decline in Milwaukee County's population during the early years of the 21st century.
Between 2000 and 2006, Milwaukee County lost 25,067 residents, according to new estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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For a city with historical socialist ties, it does appear that the real workers don't feel especially well represented by the past and current socialist/democratic parties.
Check out the comments thread for a good read: http://www.jsonline.com/content/forum/population.asp
The real interesting phenomenon is despite these cities losing population, they seem to be increasing their voter rolls every cycle and coming ever closer to 100% turnout! You can observe this strange occurrence in places such as Detroit, Cleveland and of course Milwaukee.
Cook County, my home and the home of the City of Chicago,
lost 88,000 people. Just wait, the age of Daley will be followed by the age of depopulation.
A couple of additional points on Chicago, It has lost a million people since 1960 and the problems are the same as Milwaukee, a city run by Democrats.
As mentioned in past threads my friends father who died in 1957 was resurrected to vote in at least the last two presidential elections(Chicago.
I'll bet the editors of the JS didn't expect to see this response and you will never see another online poll like this taken ever again.
The liberals can't stand the paradise they have created and are leaving. Problem is they take their politics with them and create another sewer where they move to.
Where are you getting your stats? I see move people moving into the city every year.
Just curious.
I am originally from one of the other counties mentioned in that article (Washington). Now I live in Florida. I did not move down here merely for the weather. When I left, not only was Milwaukee a cesspool dumping its population on the surrounding counties, but the state government was growing more and more oppressive. When I graduated from college, I moved to Florida permanently. Florida, btw, has no state income tax. However, property taxes are getting out of hand here too. Now I am thinking of moving again - to Tennessee.
And don't forget Philly, where 105% of voters in da 'hood show up to vote straight Democrat. They aren't even smart enough to make it look legit.
That one was kind of fun to read. I am amazed by the number of people who are sick of the crap that goes on in Milwaukee.
Wait till Blagovitch raises his VAT taxes. Illinois will become
as broke as California.
Yup. Wouldn't leave Tennessee for anything!
Who'd want to live in that craphole anyway? I grew up in Racine, which was just as bad as Milwaukee. The whole SE corner of Wisconsin stinks.
The one thing I noticed that was quite wrong with the replies to the Urinal Sentimental's blog was the whining about no jobs in Milwaukee. Most of Washington County's growth was due to people moving out of Milwaukee. Now, most of these folks didn't quit their jobs when they left Milwaukee, they simply started commuting. Obviously, not everyone can afford a more expensive home in the suburbs and exurbs, so the ones with the good jobs and the business owners were the ones who moved out. That leaves Milwaukee with a higher proportion of trash...of all the races...
| City of Chicago Population by year [1] |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Census year |
Population | Rank | |
| 1840 | 4,470 | 92 | |
| 1850 | 29,963 | 24 | |
| 1860 | 112,172 | 9 | |
| 1870 | 298,977 | 5 | |
| 1880 | 503,185 | 4 | |
| 1890 | 1,099,850 | 2 | |
| 1900 | 1,698,575 | 2 | |
| 1910 | 2,185,283 | 2 | |
| 1920 | 2,701,705 | 2 | |
| 1930 | 3,376,438 | 2 | |
| 1940 | 3,396,808 | 2 | |
| 1950 | 3,620,962 | 2 | |
| 1960 | 3,550,404 | 2 | |
| 1970 | 3,366,957 | 2 | |
| 1980 | 3,005,072 | 2 | |
| 1990 | 2,783,726 | 3 | |
| 2000 | 2,896,016 | 3 | |
| 2005 | 2,842,518 | 3 | |
707 thousand less .... not quite a million.
Too bad. Milwaukee has some of best home architecture in the nation. In 1900, European craftsmen moved into the city and built outstanding cabinetry and woodwork inside these homes.
By those numbers, it looks like Chicago bottomed out in 1990 and has been holding its own since then.
And realistically speaking, we wouldn't want to go back to the time when Chicago had 3.8 million people, Manhattan had more than 2 million, and Boston was at 800,000. What this means today is not that large areas are abandoned, but apartments that used to be crammed with one family with four or five kids are now home to one professional couple with maybe one kid. That's an improvement. You won't find any abandoned neighborhoods or land to speak of in Manhattan or Boston, and little in Chicago.
Detroit and Cleveland, though, that's another story. Particularly Detroit. But we shouldn't mourn people leaving cramped tenements with bad sanitation for the suburbs of their own cities and new houses elsewhere. It's only when the city is actually abandoned that we have problems.
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