<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Todd Walton</b> <<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 7/27/07, Daniel A. Ramaley <<a href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> Most of our population lives in cities.<br><br>Cite? I read in Time or Newsweek several months ago that that's not
<br>true. They were saying that because of the sheer size of this country<br>rural areas constitute a lot of the population.</blockquote><div><br><a href="http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm">http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm
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<table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffcc" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr><td scope="row" align="center">Total U.S. Population</td>
<td align="center"> </td><td align="center">285,230,516</td><td align="center">100</td></tr>
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<td scope="row" align="center">Population living in Urban Areas <sup>2</sup></td>
<td align="center">3,629</td><td align="center">225,956,060</td><td align="center">79.219</td></tr>
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<td scope="row" align="center">Population living in Rural Areas</td>
<td align="center"> </td><td align="center">59,274,456</td><td align="center">20.781</td></tr></tbody>
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I believe that the population in Urban areas passed the population in
rural areas in the 1910's. Only recently did the world population
follow suit (this year perhaps?).<br><br><span class="gmail_quote"></span> </div>Chris<br><br></div>