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Despite being centrally located between a number of major metropolitan areas, eastern Kentucky—the part of the state covered by the sprawling 5th congressional district—is, functionally, a ...
by David Jarman
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on Tue Jan 01, 2019 at 12:24 PM PST
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South Florida is one of the most diverse places in the United States; Miami and its immediate suburbs, in particular, function just as much as the northernmost part of Latin America as they do the ...
by David Jarman
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on Tue Jan 01, 2019 at 05:54 PM PST
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One of the most overlooked demographic categories in America is multiracial people—or in the U.S. Census’ parlance, people claiming “two or more” races. They represent around 3 percent of ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon May 28, 2018 at 05:09 PM PDT
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One thing you might not know about the U.S.’s Native American population is how widely distributed it is. Less than one-quarter of Native Americans (or, more specifically, members of the Census’...
by David Jarman
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on Mon May 28, 2018 at 06:29 PM PDT
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You might be surprised to find out that German-American is the most common ancestry in the United States, at least according to the Census Bureau; 13.9 percent of Americans claim German ancestry, ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon Jan 01, 2018 at 06:30 PM PST
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One of the stereotypical images of Thanksgiving is the large extended family gathered around the dining room table. If you wanted every day to be like Thanksgiving—at least to the extent that you ...
by David Jarman
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on Wed Nov 22, 2017 at 07:26 PM PST
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On this Labor Day, let’s talk about one of the most aggravating aspects of many people’s jobs: the business of getting to and from work. Earlier, as part of Daily Kos Elections' ongoing "Most ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon Sep 04, 2017 at 06:56 PM PDT
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Work theoretically occupies one-third of our lives, but it feels even longer when you factor in the time we spend getting there and returning home. According to the Census Bureau’s American ...
by David Jarman
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on Sat Sep 02, 2017 at 06:56 PM PDT
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Way back during the 2008 presidential race, a John McCain campaign surrogate (people tend to think the quote came from Sarah Palin, but it actually came from somebody named Nancy Pfotenhauer) raised a lot of hackles by saying that northern Virginia was...
by David Jarman
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on Tue Jul 04, 2017 at 04:14 PM PDT
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If you stop and visualize Philadelphia, what first comes to mind might be some stereotypically masculine imagery: Rocky running up the steps of the art museum, burly guys tearing into cheesesteaks, ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon May 29, 2017 at 06:39 PM PDT
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Daily Kos Elections’ “Most District” series flies over to Florida’s 1st congressional district for Memorial Day weekend: it’s the district that has the highest percentage of veterans. ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon May 29, 2017 at 01:59 PM PDT
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Earlier, in the ongoing Daily Kos Elections “Most District” series, we wrote about the congressional district with the highest rate of people born in the same state as where they now live: New ...
by David Jarman
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on Tue Dec 27, 2016 at 06:55 PM PST
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In the weeks before the election, one of the most interesting (if underreported) poll findings came from Public Religion Research Institute ; at the time, it seemed like just a neat bit of trivia,
by David Jarman
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on Mon Dec 26, 2016 at 07:59 PM PST
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Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District has seen more than its fair share of economic ups and downs. If you go back to 2009 Census economic data, at the peak of the recession, and zoom in on Elkhart ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon Jul 04, 2016 at 06:59 PM PDT
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“Millennial” has become a bit of a pejorative in popular media, often deployed as shorthand for a smug hipster who’s a harbinger of neighborhood-destroying regentrification, a self-absorbed ...
by David Jarman
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on Mon Jul 04, 2016 at 04:59 PM PDT
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Of the nation’s 435 congressional districts, none have a greater proportion of never-married men than Massachusetts’ 7th. According to the 2014 American Community Survey, 59 percent of males ...
by Jeff Singer
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on Sat May 28, 2016 at 01:00 PM PDT
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California’s 21st congressional district
The nation’s least-educated congressional district is California’s 21st Congressional District. This district covers most of the southern ...
by David Jarman
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on Sat Jan 16, 2016 at 06:59 PM PST
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New York's 12th congressional district
New York, New York; if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. Of course, to make it in New York, you probably need a college education, ...
by David Jarman
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on Sat Jan 02, 2016 at 06:56 PM PST
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Utah’s 3rd congressional district
The nation’s youngest congressional district is Utah’s 3rd Congressional District. The 3rd starts in the southern suburbs of Salt Lake City, ...
by David Jarman
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on Fri Jan 01, 2016 at 05:55 PM PST
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Florida’s 11th congressional district
The nation’s oldest congressional district is Florida’s 11th Congressional District. The 11th district covers a wide swath of central Florida, ...
by David Jarman
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on Fri Jan 01, 2016 at 07:25 AM PST
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