Americans Moving Exclusively to Shitholes

The complete and total collapse of the global economy had at least one upside for Americans: it briefly stopped them from moving to brand new housing developments in hellish southwestern desert exurbs. Only for a few years though, alas. The great migration of Americans towards hot places their children will come to…
Chicks Taking All the Good Jobs
Enlightened men know that the old system in which the top professional fields were almost completely dominated by"good old boys" simply was not tenable. I mean, the whining alone, year after year... I don't have to paint you a picture. It was just common sense to allow a few more women into the legal and medical…
Old People Now Living in Sin Also
When we hear about unmarried young couples living together in sin, we're like "Sure, kids these days are living in sin, rejecting god, and fornicating nightly in Lucifer's glory, what else is new?" But now we hear that older couples are also living together in sin. Aren't you older couples old enough to know the…
US pop. reached pi x 100,000,000 today (314,159,265). In celebration, every American ate 100,000,000 pies ("the usual").
Black is the New White: Non-White Births Outnumber White Births for the First Time in U.S. History
Between July 2010 and July 2011, non-white births outnumbered white births 50.4% to 49.6%, according to Census Bureau data released Thursday [NY Times link].
The Slumburbs of Our Future
It is not hard to explain the prevailing demographic trends in America over the past decade or so: the inflating bubble caused Americans to rush further and further out into the far-flung suburbs in order to purchase homes, to live the American dream; construction and lending skyrocketed along the way; when the bubble…
How to Find Cool Stuff in the Newly-Released 1940 Census Data, or, Cyberstalking Your Grandparents
The Census Bureau just released reams of data from the 1940 U.S. Census online (the website's been up and down all day; if it doesn't work, try later), and you are going to spend the next hour or so tooling around on the website. I know because I just did it myself.
Government to Release Depressing Census Records From Great Depression
After 72 years of being kept confidential, the 1940 census will be released on April 2. This is exciting news for historians with an interest in the Great Depression and general census enthusiasts. Actually, it is kind of neat, and the records will be available to anyone online. You just can't search by name, in case…
Barack Obama Can Just Ignore White Voters Now
Even when Democrats' fortunes tumble spectacularly in the short-term, the party can always remind itself that national demographic trends favor them in the end. Many, many old white people will die soon enough. This generation's youth voters are lopsidedly liberal. Meanwhile, Hispanics — who've voted strongly for…
How Race and Ethnicity is Distributed Across the U.S.
Attention, data nerds! Numbers from the 2010 Census are being released, which means it's time to start crunching numbers and making colorful maps. New Geography has a bunch, including these two showing the concentrations of black and Hispanic respondents, respectively. Multiply the numbers in the legend by 100 to get…
