I swim in this stream all the time here in south Minneapolis and it is common knowledge that our part of town is growing, not shrinking. My own guesstimates put the East African and Latino population well beyond the 2000 census numbers - tens of thousands as we approach mid-decade. These folks are showing up in the work force, their kids are in school, families are buying houses, medical clinics and libraries are bustling, entrepreneurship is very much on the rise, and we all see each other quite matter-of-factly as we go about our business by whatever means of conveyance.
We also have a residential building boom on our hands and the vacant lots and boarded houses are clearly an endangered species. I imagine the peak immigration censuses from 1880 through 1920 or so also lagged behind reality in part because of undercount and also in part because the census demographic categories themselves are at best a work in progress. The more we blur race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, type of occupation, educational attainments, and the like as we actually live our lives over the decades, the less salient the old census categories become. As for simple headcount - jeepers, look around! Fred Markus, Phillips West, Ward 6 --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! --- REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
