On 7/28/07, <b style="font-size: 19.9px;" class="gmail_sendername">Chris Freeman</b> <<a href="mailto:cwfreeman@gmail.com">cwfreeman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div style="font-size: 19.9px;"><span style="font-size: 19.9px;" class="gmail_quote">
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<span style="font-size: 19.9px;" class="gmail_quote">On 7/28/07, <b style="font-size: 19.9px;" class="gmail_sendername">Todd Walton</b> <<a style="font-size: 19.9px;" href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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; font-size: 19.9px;">
On 7/27/07, Daniel A. Ramaley <<a style="font-size: 19.9px;" href="mailto:daniel.ramaley@drake.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">daniel.ramaley@drake.edu</a>> wrote:<br style="font-size: 19.9px;">
> Most of our population lives in cities.<br style="font-size: 19.9px;"><br style="font-size: 19.9px;">Cite? I read in Time or Newsweek several months ago that that's not
<br style="font-size: 19.9px;">true. They were saying that because of the sheer size of this country<br style="font-size: 19.9px;">rural areas constitute a lot of the population.</blockquote></span><div style="font-size: 19.9px;">
<br style="font-size: 19.9px;"><a style="font-size: 19.9px;" href="http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm
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<tbody style="font-size: 24px;"><tr style="font-size: 24px;"><td style="font-size: 24px;" scope="row" align="center">Total U.S. Population</td>
<td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center"> </td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">285,230,516</td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">100</td></tr>
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<td style="font-size: 24px;" scope="row" align="center">Population living in Urban Areas <sup style="font-size: 19.5px;">2</sup></td>
<td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">3,629</td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">225,956,060</td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">79.219</td></tr>
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<td style="font-size: 24px;" scope="row" align="center">Population living in Rural Areas</td>
<td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center"> </td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">59,274,456</td><td style="font-size: 24px;" 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 style="font-size: 19.9px;"><br style="font-size: 19.9px;"><span style="font-size: 19.9px;" class="gmail_quote"></span> </div>Chris</div></blockquote><div><br>Sorry, I forgot to include the headers in the quoted table. Including those:
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<tbody style="font-size: 24px;"><tr style="font-size: 24px;"><th style="font-size: 24px;" scope="col" align="left">Geographic Division:</th><th style="font-size: 24px;" scope="col" align="center"># of Areas</th><th style="font-size: 24px;" scope="col" align="center">
Total Population</th><th style="font-size: 24px;" scope="col" align="center">Percent of U.S. Total</th></tr>
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<td style="font-size: 24px;" scope="row" align="center">Total U.S. Population</td>
<td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center"> </td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">285,230,516</td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">100</td></tr>
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<td style="font-size: 24px;" scope="row" align="center">Population living in Urban Areas <sup style="font-size: 19.5px;">2</sup></td>
<td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">3,629</td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">225,956,060</td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">79.219</td></tr>
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<td style="font-size: 24px;" scope="row" align="center">Population living in Rural Areas</td>
<td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center"> </td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">59,274,456</td><td style="font-size: 24px;" align="center">20.781</td></tr>
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<br style="font-size: 19.9px;">Also, for the world population, a
citation (not necessarily the best, but one of the first on a Google
search): <a href="http://www.realtruth.org/news/070720-001-world-urban-pop.html">http://www.realtruth.org/news/070720-001-world-urban-pop.html</a><br style="font-size: 19.9px;"><span style="font-size: 19.9px;" class="gmail_quote">
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</span><br></div>Chris<br></div><br style="font-size: 19.9px;">