Philly tops nation in population loss since census

[Rick Dean]

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Philly tops nation in population loss since census

By RAMONA SMITH

smithra@phillynews.com


Philadelphia lost more people than any other county in the nation in the three years after the most recent census, according to population estimates released today.

The loss of an estimated 38,211 Philadelphians left the city with about 1,479,339 residents as of July 2003, the Census Bureau said.

But the continuing slide
came at a slower rate than in the worst years during the 1970s, when the population dipped by 13 percent.

Philadelphia's 2.5 percent drop was fourth-worst among the nation's biggest 100 count


ies
following only Baltimore (down 3.45 percent), S
an Francisco (down 3.2 percent) and Hamilton County, Ohio (home to Cincinnati, 2.58 percent). Hundreds of small counties, however, saw worse declines, with several over 12 percent.

Meanwhile, Maricopa County, Ariz. - which includes Phoenix, currently threatening to push Philly out of its status as the country's fifth-largest city - continued to grow by more than 10 percent between the April 2000 census and mid-2003. Estimates for city populations will be released later this year.

The official population still stands at 1,517,550 for Philadelphia, the number from the 2000 census.

The city's population has been shrinking for more than a half-century, from a peak of more than 2 million in 1950.

 

[The Bobster]

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As a resident of an outer Phiily burb, I'm feeling the brunt of this wave of refugees. Of course, they won't say that they're fleeing the spix and spades. Oh no, they moved 50 miles away for the better schools.

 

[Smilin' Jack]

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Philadelphia, the overflowing toilet. Mayor Mean Street proclaimed that the bros and hos were in charge there, and few question that assertion. But, evidently, because of some policy fashioned behind the scenes by the welfare bureaucracy, surplus vermin get shipped to medium sized cities like Williamsport and Sunbury. Meanwhile, local "developers" are copping "grants" and building claptrap units that look like hi-rise barracks, and actually function as "the projects" traditionally did. Then, the cancer spreads to even smaller towns, in this case, the Susquehanna Valley. Soon, armed assaults/carjackings, burglaries and atrocious crimes against innocent White c
tizens occur. The influx of blax has been matched by a corresponding increase in the number of bieners; many of these from the Dominican Republic. Pack it when you go!

 

[The Bobster]

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Meanwhile, crooked developers are getting rich buying up farms and using wetback labor to build shoddy houses for the Whites fleeing the devastation.