Erik Larson wrote: > > Re: Victoria's recent post > > I provided a more detailed analysis of this just a week-and-a-half ago > that demonstrated either that (a) the "population decline" is either due > to the flight non-college educated and non-white populations from > Minneapolis or (b) bad estimates. (For those who did not read the > previous post, please note that conclusion (b) is far more plausible.) > > The fact that VH links to FAIR (an organization perfectly willing to > distort information to make its anti-immigrant arguments) is telling. As > is the fact that the FAIR article on the population decline uses the 2000 > data for foreign-born population. Why didn't FAIR use the 2003 Census > Bureau Estimate? Oh, perhaps because it would show a decline in the total > number of foreign-born in Minneapolis. (But I would think that the FAIR > types would really get into the fact that the percentage has increased.)
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