I was thinking about the USA and population growth. A question about that..
Not a trick question, but do you know the answer?..(after some thought, I figured it out..but the
answer is easy.)
Here is the question....Since 1940, most of the strongest population growth in the USA has occurred in 3 states:
California, Texas, and Florida.. Why? or...Why not New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Illinois like it used to be? ...(.I guess it is more than one question, but it is about one idea,)
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...Is there any one cause for the change? If there is one, what is it? ..It ain't a trick question, but I think there is one reason...(in my opinion...what is your opinion?)....and it is not..no, NOT... people having sex and having babies....that is NOT THE CORRECT ANSWER..
I am a bit out of it tonite, why not a quiz, like I used to give when I was a teacher in a high school?
= new reply since forum marked as read
air conditioning, and the horrors of yellow fever and malaria have been brought under control, so why not escape the blizzards and frozen pipes in the northern states? Just a shot in the dark, really. I have no idea. 
In 1955, Disney began exploring another location in the east and settled on Orlando, Fla.
At the time, 70% of the US population lived east of the Mississippi River.
1950, US population distribution MAP.
June 22, 2016, Business Insider, "Half Of The US Population Lives In These 9 States"
More than 330 million people live in the United States, but that doesn't mean the population is distributed evenly. Far from it. Using the latest US Census data, we determined that just nine states —
*California, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia, Florida*-account for half of the entire US population. Half of the US population lives in these 9 states' Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-the-us-population-lives-in-just-9-states-2016-6
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Demographic History of the United States-- Partial, Much More at the Link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_United_States
- US Population 1950: 151,325,798;
- US Population 2010: 308, 745, 538
- Population growth projections: The U.S. population in 1900 was 76 million. In 1950, it rose to 152 million; by 2000 it had reached 282 million. *By 2050, it is expected to reach 420 million.*
- Migration within the United States -
The American West: In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, concluding the Mexican War, extended U.S. citizenship to approximately 60,000 Mexican residents of the New Mexico Territory and 10,000 living in California. However, much like Texas, the Mexican government had encouraged immigration and settlement of these regions from groups in the United States and Europe. Approximately half of this population is estimated to have been of American origin. In 1849, the California Gold Rush spurred significant immigration from Mexico, South America, China, Australia, Europe and caused a mass migration within the US, resulting in California gaining statehood in 1850, with a population of about 90,000.
- Rural flight: Rural flight is the departure of excess populations (usually young men and women) from farm areas. In some cases whole families left, as in the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. Much of rural America has seen steady population decline since 1920.
- Black migration out of the South: Main article: Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration was the movement of millions of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States from 1914 to 1960. Most moved to large industrial cities, as well as to many smaller industrial cities.African-Americans moved as individuals or small groups. There was no government assistance. They migrated because of a variety of push and pull factors:
Push factor:
1.Many African-Americans wanted to avoid the racial segregation of the Jim Crow South and sought refuge in the supposed "Promised Land" of the North where there was thought to be less segregation 2.The boll weevil infestation of the cotton fields of the South in the late 1910s, reduced the demand for sharecroppers. 3.The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and its aftermath displaced hundreds of thousands of African-American farm workers;
Pull factors:
1. Income levels were much higher in the North, with far higher wages in the service sector. 2.The enormous growth of war industries in WW1 and WW2 created new job openings for blacks 3.World War I effectively put a halt to the flow of European immigrants to the industrial centers, causing shortages of workers in the factories. 4.In the 1930s Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps and other relief programs in the North were more receptive to blacks. The WPA paid more in the North.
Census Bureau Population Change in the US, 1960-2000
