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To: Strategerist

“This is one of the reasons why it seems to me so many FReepers don’t understand how outnumbered they are, or how fringe some of their views have become.”

Well, for one thing, the 79% urban population number is a flat-out falsehood. Cities have been losing population for 50 years and continue to do so. All you need do is compare population numbers from 1960 to today and the falling population in cities is apparent. Seattle has more dogs than children. Detroit is being reclaimed by nature. Cities are dead or dying.

The bulk of the population now lives in exurbia. Read any survey and you’ll discover that families with children are fleeing cities by the millions. If you want to see where the future population growth will happen, head to exurban areas in the south, which are filled with schools, playgrounds and children. Walk through a southern mall parking lot in Baptist territory and note all the little stick figures that people paste in the back window of their SUVs. There’s a lot of kids represented.


45 posted on 12/02/2012 6:30:16 AM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: sergeantdave
That view may be true in the south, but in the NE and even out west, the suburbs have become more urbanized, while the cities have become gentrified, and more expensive to live in than either suburbia or exurbia. US birthrates are now at an all time low, and most of the growth has come from 1st generation immigrants and their children.

Besides all of the growing, dynamic areas of the south are yankeefied anyway. Anglo-Celtic evangelicals will never be the dominant class in anything outside of the military.

46 posted on 12/02/2012 6:45:11 AM PST by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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