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- NATION, Page 46American NotesPOPULATIONHere Comes California
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- With the nation's big cities ridden by crime, smog and
- traffic snarls, Americans must be fleeing to the serenity of
- the countryside, right? Wrong. Preliminary statistics from the
- 1990 census indicate that over the past decade the
- back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s was reversed. Rural
- areas may have lost as many as 1.4 million people, far more
- than demographers had predicted. By contrast, metropolitan
- areas along the California and Florida coasts have grown
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- The trend has pushed California to a population of
- 29,279,000, a 23.7% jump that will apparently entitle it to
- seven new seats when Congress is reapportioned. Florida, which
- gained 31%, to 12,775,000, will get four extra seats. In all,
- 19 House seats will shift from state to state, with New York,
- which held virtually steady at 17,627,000, suffering the
- largest loss: three seats. As the numbers are refined for final
- release in December, they are expected to show that the U.S.
- has grown to a population of nearly 250 million.
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