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Finding the appropriate message for the appropriate target requires detailed demographic analysis. According to Reese, experts have divided the United States into 250,000 blocks of 280 households called Census Block Groups...
...read those, each and every one of those Census Block Groups demographically and know what kind of folks they are, how much money they make, how much education they have, what's their ethnic background, what's their religion et cetera," says Reese...
...decades after the Kerner Commission warned that the U.S. was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal," the nation remains dismayingly segregated in its housing patterns. A recent study by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, found that 57% of American whites live in census tracts that are more than 99% white and nearly a third of all blacks live in neighborhoods that are more than 90% black. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that 2 million people encounter racial discrimination in housing every year. Last week the Senate passed...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. Based on 1980 census.}]CAPTION: HOUSING SEGREGATION INDEX...
Under the heading "New Demographic Realities", Daphne Spain, a professor at the University of Virginia and a former researcher at the Census Bureau, will present a paper using census data to pinpoint the current situations of women. Suzanne Keller will use that information as a starting point for her paper, which will be a "more projectionary and daring" exploration ofwhere women will be at the beginning of the nextcentury, Lee said...