Word: census
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...vaudevillian's line used to be, "From Omaha? Nice place to be from." On the evidence of the 1970 census, the most prominent places to be from during the '60s were North Dakota, which lost 2.3% of its population, South Dakota, which lost 2.1% and West Virginia, which lost 6.2%. A favorite place to go was still California, the last continental stop in the American migration, which became the nation's most populous state, with 19,953,134 residents. In the final 1970 census figures, announced last week, California surpassed New York by 1.7 million, thus gaining...
...cost of nearly $1 per citizen, the 1970 census counted 204,765,770 Americans, including nearly 1,600,000 servicemen and civilians now living abroad. The population has grown some 24 million since the 1960 calculation. But the increase-13.3%-was the lowest in any decade since the low birthrate days of the Depression. For one thing, those relatively fewer babies born in the '30s are now of the child-bearing generation of the '60s; a trend toward smaller families helped to diminish the sum further. It was enough to encourage watchers of the population clock. They...
...better known author of this tract is Richard Scammon, former director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, now head of the Electronics Research Center in Washington. His partner is Ben Wattenberg, a former aide to President Johnson, and now a speech-writer for Hubert Humphrey. The heart of the Scammon-Wattenberg thesis is the simple truth that the center is the only position of political power. To win an election, a candidate "must capture the center ground of an election battlefield." The center itself shifts with the major issues of the day, but any candidate who is perceived...
...also lost ground. In attempting to campaign for all his running mates, Reagan spread himself thin and watched his 1966 plurality of nearly 1,000,000 votes shrink to roughly half that. The Republicans lost both houses of the state legislature. The reversal was particularly damaging because the 1970 census gives California five additional seats in Congress; the new legislature will determine how the state is to be redistricted...
Next week the annual census on Peking's legitimacy will be taken, as delegates to the United Nations General Assembly vote on China's admission to the U.N. Because that admission has always been treated as an "important question" requiring a two-thirds assenting vote, there is almost no chance that Peking will gain membership. Even so, if a majority of the members voting approve, the U.S. will find itself in an awkward position as chief lobbyist against China's admission...