Now if Mark was actually aware of realty, he would know that the current population is +100 million above 1980, the election he is stuck on when conservatives still had a chance at the ballot box.
Mark, tell the stupid caller ...
Historical Population Census Population % 1790 3,929,214 1800 5,236,631 33.3% 1810 7,239,881 38.3% 1820 9,638,453 33.1% 1830 12,866,020 33.5% 1840 17,069,453 32.7% 1850 23,191,876 35.9% 1860 31,443,321 35.6% 1870 38,558,371 22.6% 1880 49,371,340 28.0% 1890 62,979,766 27.6% 1900 76,212,168 21.0% 1910 92,228,531 21.0% 1920 106,021,568 15.0% 1930 123,202,660 16.2% 1940 132,165,129 7.3% 1950 151,325,798 14.5% 1960 179,323,175 18.5% 1970 203,211,926 13.3% 1980 226,545,805 11.5% 1990 248,709,873 9.8% 2000 281,421,906 13.2% 2010 308,745,538 9.7% 2015 321,729,000 4.2% (estimated)
The baby boom ended around 1964 and large scale legal immigration was restarted in 1965, these people get into the naturalization queue. Amnesty was granted to illegal aliens in 1986 and they also get into the naturalization queue.
What a crock that caller tried to pass off. We need 2.1 babies each for what? It is to pad the Social Security front end so that they can keep pushing the crash date further down the road.
This, BTW is why his electoral ideas are so stupid regarding a litmus test conservative in the current demographics. The 1980 makeup was people of WWI, WWII, Korea and baby boomers and related. But we are dying off fast and being replaced by naturalized 3rd world invaders. +100 million total which BTW almost exactly matched the 95 million out of workforce.
C'mon Mark, get on the stick!