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U.S. Population Grew at Slowest Pace in More Than 80 Years
WSJ ^ | December 20, 2018

Posted on 12/20/2018 5:52:55 PM PST by SMGFan

Falling birthrate, rising death rate slow population growth as more Americans move to western and southern states

The U.S. population grew in the past year at its slowest rate in over eight decades, with growth in the South and West continuing to outpace the Northeast and Midwest, according to figures the Census Bureau released Wednesday.

The numbers, which cover the year ended July 1, show the country’s population rose by 0.6% to 327.2 million people. That was the lowest rate since 1937 in data going back to 1901, according to William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.

The figures offer fresh clues to which states are likely to gain or lose congressional seats after the 2020 census

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birthrate; trends
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1 posted on 12/20/2018 5:52:55 PM PST by SMGFan
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White and black Americans need to reproduce and stop adopting pug dogs and believing in Planned Parenthood crap.


2 posted on 12/20/2018 5:55:59 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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To: SMGFan

It’s a good thing. We already have 330 million people. We don’t need more. The only nations of the world that have more are India and China.


3 posted on 12/20/2018 5:57:12 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: SMGFan

Maybe this is true. Maybe it isn’t. But I think the real message is: golly, we need more immigrants from Mexico to do the work of the future!!!!!!!


4 posted on 12/20/2018 5:59:22 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Brilliant

Our population is increasing dramatically. The low birth rate is a story line that may be true, but all our cities are growing by 10% per decade and those numbers are not coming from the rural areas.


5 posted on 12/20/2018 6:00:31 PM PST by BRL
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To: SMGFan

With or without illegals ?


6 posted on 12/20/2018 6:03:10 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: reed13k

As of April 1, 2020 all people residing in the USA , been like that since 1790.


7 posted on 12/20/2018 6:08:45 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
White and black Americans need to reproduce and stop adopting pug dogs and believing in Planned Parenthood crap.

Western decadence is the problem here. Traditional gender roles are no longer supported by our society.

8 posted on 12/20/2018 6:09:58 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Brilliant

It’s a good thing until you realize they’re moving in foreign nationals while our bedrock populace remains the same size.

Who understands and sees a need for our Founding principles? Our bedrock populace, or the new immigrants.

We truly need an effort to have our populace have the six to ten children they used to.

Self-deterination for the bedrock populace depends on it.

In 30 years there will be very few White self-rule nations on the face of planet earth.

Our nation may not be one of them.


9 posted on 12/20/2018 6:17:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: DoughtyOne

I think that the main reason why it’s so low lately is because Trump is increasing security at the border and deporting more illegals.


10 posted on 12/20/2018 6:24:27 PM PST by Brilliant
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Is there some city somewhere that desperately needs more traffic? Do the suburbs need to become even sprawlier? To rural towns need to become clogged cities? Do we need to create new towns all across the nation?

We have 300 million people. How many more do we need?


11 posted on 12/20/2018 6:32:57 PM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Brilliant

No, it’s addressing replacement birthrates.

The Western nations and Japan are not creating replacement children.

Third worlders are procreating like there’s no tomorrow.


12 posted on 12/20/2018 6:32:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: SMGFan

Stop aborting 60 million unborn American citizens and then trying to replace them with non-citizen illegal aliens. Problem solved.


13 posted on 12/20/2018 7:18:05 PM PST by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
White and black Americans need to reproduce and stop adopting pug dogs and believing in Planned Parenthood crap.

Knock yourself out. Seriously, have as many as you like.

For me, though...not so much.

14 posted on 12/20/2018 7:25:04 PM PST by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
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To: SMGFan

Wall Street Journal acting as propagandists for the Cheap Labor Express to convince US to relax about the invasion of our country.


15 posted on 12/20/2018 7:29:53 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Amen. There is no more joyful solution to a problem in the universe. Just do it!


16 posted on 12/20/2018 7:30:23 PM PST by Theophilus (Make America Grateful Again)
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To: SMGFan

Strange. Our priest went to the hospital to baptize a dying baby. He said he had never seen so many babies in the maternity ward.


17 posted on 12/20/2018 8:51:21 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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G. K. Chesterton

"Surplus population"

"SCROOGE is not only as modern as Gradgrind but more modern than Gradgrind. He belongs not only to the hard times of the middle of the nineteenth century, but to the harder times of the beginning of the twentieth century; the yet harder times in which we live. Many amiable sociologists will say, as he said, "Let them die and decrease the surplus population." The improved proposal is that they should die before they are born.

"It is notable also that Dickens gives the right reply; and that with a deadly directness worthy of a much older and more subtle controversionalist. The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows he is not. That is the answer which the Spirit of Christmas gives to Scrooge."

~G.K. Chesterton: Introduction to A Christmas Carol. (1922)

18 posted on 12/20/2018 8:52:28 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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I’ll let you know how it goes when I tell Mrs. Kickaha I’m fixin to have five more chillun.


19 posted on 12/20/2018 9:12:00 PM PST by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam)
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To: Brilliant

“Trump is increasing security at the border and deporting more illegals.”
Although that helps, another big reason is that the post WWII Baby Boom generaton is starting to die off.


20 posted on 12/20/2018 11:23:57 PM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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