Demographics Set and Stone?
Why Dont Americans' "Scatter the States"?
Why do states where certain races originate from make up a large percentage of that race? The American Fact Finder proves that most African Americans originate from the south (e.g. Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia), still live there today. This doesn’t mean that all African Americans live in the south east but that’s where in one of those singles states alone 26.3 to 55.4 % of them live. The same goes with the White race, 94 to 96% of people who live in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and West Virginia are white.
If after the civil war when all people had the right to live wherever they wanted why didn’t they want to move to a different part of the country? This makes me wonder why they chose to make this decision.I think this goes back to where races orignated from.
The statistics show that in the eastern states where most of the white people came from still have a large percentage in those states along with some random middle, eastern, and western states as well. The same goes with the Asians that originated more from the west and the African Americans coming from the south.
This entire pattern in demographics makes me wonder if over time the percentages will ever be broken up. It also interests me how the education system isn’t the same in all of the states. The south has one of the poorest education system compared to the east and west coast. In 2006 in almost all of the southern states, only 66% percent were people who were 25 years and over completed high school. That’s more then half of the entire state its self.
Sen. Eric Johnson is still trying to push school vouchers on the residents of Georgia. He states that vouchers "should be paying more attention to improving the public school system in Georgia instead of trying to put a Band-Aid on the problem." I wonder if in the future, future presidents will make a change in the education system through out the Untied States. Maybe we might see some of those percentages go down like all the rest. Overall the whole concept of where states are located and who orientated from there is a mystery that will only reveal itself over time.
-Lakly, Donna Lee . "School vouchers: Plan does not address the deep problems with public education in Georgia ajc.com." Atlanta News, Sports, Atlanta Weather, Business News ajc.com. http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/09/29/laklyed.html (accessed Oct. 2, 2008).
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