Aug.13th / Friday .... that makes this Frithe13th
I love this time of ........... the d e c a d e ! The release of: the results; the data; •&• the fullfill- ment of demographers' ≡y-e-n-s≡ across the🇺🇲. THE CENSUS Numbers a r e h e r e !! THE
2020 U.S. CENSUS Numbers are ↪ ↩
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Do you remember ... in ▪️T h e J e r k▪️...?
?... when Steve Martin's character :: Navin R.
Johnson ( ..the jerk !!) begins to insanely scream `the new phone book is here !! ..the new phone book is here' ..... [ he's very excited, because his name is "..in print.." | so, he tells everyone he knows that he is now somebody |
JOHNSON, NAVIN R. ]
The annual Census and The Jerk with common ties !! Who'd thunk it ? Seriously,
in accordance with `The U.S. Constitution` :: Article 1 / Section 2 the U.S. Government must enumerate the nation's population for a multitude of reasons, including apportionment of Representatives (House members) for the states; and, to allocate the use of national resources.
Despite a global pandemic / the U.S. blundering of this epidemiological--wildfire [ABSOLUTELY NO P U N INTENDED] and,
a |nearing of a| 2--year head~pounding ~migrane ...
... the Census Bureau endeavored to count 331,449,281 of [U.S.] us !! Forget about all of the footnotes 'qualifying' this and, rationalizing that. The U.S. population ... except for periodic Census Bureau updated estimates between 2023 [or so] ---&--- 2029 [?] ... will be
three-hundred thirty-one million ± people until sometime soon after 2030 !!
Just a few <....really ! ...a few..> more thoughts.
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➡️Here⬅️ in N e w
⬆️ J e r s e y, we are officially
a +plus+ 9 million persons state .. 9,288,994 to be extract <and, a little e x a c t> ! For all of you N.J. naysayers !! ...all of you Repubs ...some of you Dems ... everyone of you ""smartasses"
... et.als., who said that N.J. was losing population ...LEFT, RIGHT, OUT, GONE, SEE--YA..
"ppppphhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeewwww" to you !
2010 to 2020 ... N.J. gained nearly ½ a million people ... increased about 5.6% .... and, those gains were across 17 of 21 counties. [(<Now,
to be fair ... one would need to peel the decennial onion back a few layers. People leaving N.J. could be that they were richer /more affluent than new people coming into our Garden {State} of Eaten ! Further analysis of the data will probably confirm that some of the drum--beating about N.J. losing people because of: high taxes; H i g H T a X e S; -&-
of course, H I G H T A X E S ...
was ~ is ~&~ will be true !<)]
Which brings me to the other point --and-- last point!
I do think a lot of decennial U.S. Census data.
I am aware that to many
m a n y
MANY
M A N Y
people .... I must be some kind of ` jerk ` !
That's your call / not mine. However, I will say this: ●read something about this 2020 Census ! ○ Try understanding that these numbers ---- which show the continued changes taking place every moment in America
---- will point you to where we are going - -
where we have been - - & - - where we are very likely to be going over these next 9 to 10 years!
□ No mater who is in The White House; any State House; or, some "mayor's" paid-for-
residence |__or__| o w n h o u s e, America as well as 30,000 "places" we live in are changing: more brown, black -and- oliveish/
yellowish colors of skin <same exact red blood>; tongues with many more tones, languages & messages; religions that don't completely evolve around one God / one
".......anity" / and, a s__t-lode of hypocrisy; personal-identity choices | gender•or•no•gender choices |divergence~in~lifestyle~choices | ET. CETRA; a changing - evolving - (still) 'growing nation of one people.
And, if you are ■THE least bit interested in knowing A N Y thing at all about this place we are headed for in America ............
............. go ahead . . . . . . . . . Be a Jerk ! Take a look at the Census ! After all, you're in it !
[If I do say so myself, this mini-essay deserves some consideration for :: Reprint :: Posting ::
Publication :: Copying :: Citation :: you name it ! I JUST-ABOUT-NEVER endorse my own writing. The U.S. Census is .•°t o o °•.
important and, I believe that I have made a good case for that importance .... for me to not pull a few punches! ....if you can give it visibility, thanks!] Art Grisi, Toms River, N.J.
arthurgrisi@gmail.com ..on Fb., Twi...&..Google
No racial or ethnic group dominates for those under age 18, and white people declined in numbers for the first time on record in the overall U.S. population as the Hispanic and Asian populations boomed this past decade, according to the 2020 census data.