Demographics

June 5, 2007 - The Emerging Democratic Majority website points to our recent post on the rapidly-changing demographics of the South -- namely, that half of Southern K-12 pupils are now students of color, driven

May 9, 2007 - Here at Facing South, we write a lot about how the South's rising social and economic clout -- and therefore its national political importance.

January 18, 2007 - As we reported in December, the latest Census Bureau numbers show that the South and West were the fastest-growing regions in the country last year. Of the top 10 state growing in the most, half are in the South.

January 10, 2007 - In the interesting demographics department, Memphis is set to become the nation's first major metropolitan area with a black majority :

December 22, 2006 - Which parts of the U.S. are growing the fastest? The Census Bureau has released its latest numbers, and once again, the West and South come out on top.

December 8, 2006 - As Facing South has noted before, one of the biggest long-term trends happening in the South has been the rapid growth of suburbs, which have grown faster in the South than any other region.

December 8, 2006 - As Facing South has noted before, one of the biggest long-term trends happening in the South has been the rapid growth of suburbs, which have grown faster in the South than any other region.

November 21, 2006 - The Census Bureau has a new website called American FactFinder with massive databases of census and demographic info with tools that provide a variety of ways to view it.

November 14, 2006 - Defined as communities located on urban fringes where housing density is low, population growth is high and at least 20 percent of workers commute to jobs in an urban area, "exurbs" are booming throughout the United States, and especially across the South.

October 24, 2006 - Action for Children North Carolina, a Raleigh-based non-profit advocacy group, and the North Carolina Institute for Medicine have released a new "Child Health Report Card" (PDF format).