Is America Coming Apart?

[FIREWALL]

Which side do I pick ? Regular beer or Light beer ?

[TigerShark808]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

all one must do is look at virtually every poll out there

you see polling figures like...

49% YES
51% NO

50% FOR IT
50% AGAINST IT

48% ORANGES
52% APPLES

55% HALF FULL
45% HALF EMPTY

50% COKE
50% PEPSI

48% KIRK
52% PICARD

of course the above polls are completely fictional but im just using that to illustrate the point that there is a remarkable 50/50 divide in America.

While it is true that you get a fluke poll where it is something like...

98% YES, SEX PLEASE!
2% NO SEX FOR ME, THANKS

but for the most part there is a pretty even division.

Nice post!

PICARD over KIRK !
COKE over PEPSI!

IMO

[Thomen]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Which side do I pick ? Regular beer or Light beer ?

If you have to ask, it is allready to late for you!

[TigerShark808]

This country has been changing for a long time. Not something thats just starting to happen.

The 11 national censuses conducted between 1900 and 2000 show our nation has undergone a century of tremendous changes in both the makeup of the population and in how Americans live their lives.

• 100 years ago, most people living in the U.S. were male, under 23 years old, lived in the country and rented their homes. Almost half of all the people in the U.S. lived in households with five or more other people.
• Today, most people in the U.S. are female, 35 years old or older and live in metropolitan areas where they own their home. Most people in the U.S. now either live alone or in a households with no more than one or two other people.

Age and sex • Children under 5 years old represented the largest five-year age group in 1900 and again in 1950; but in 2000 the largest groups were 35 to 39 and 40 to 44.
• The percentage of the U.S. population age 65 and over increased in every census from 1900 (4.1 percent) to 1990 (12.6 percent), then declined for the first time in Census 2000 to 12.4 percent.
• From 1900 to 1960, the South had the highest proportion of children under 15 and the lowest proportion of people 65 and over, making it the country's "youngest" region. The West grabbed that title in the latter part of the century.

Race and Hispanic origin
• At the beginning of the century, 1-in-8 U.S. residents was of a race other than white; at the end of the century, the ratio was 1-in-4.
• The black population remained concentrated in the South and the Asian and Pacific Islander population in the West through the century, but these regional concentrations declined sharply by 2000.
• Among the races, the American Indian and Alaska Native population had the highest percentage under age 15 for most of the 20th century.
• From 1980 to 2000, the Hispanic-origin population, which may be of any race, more than doubled.
• The total minority population people of Hispanic origin or of races other than white increased by 88 percent between 1980 and 2000 while the non-Hispanic white population grew by only 7.9 percent.

Housing and household size
• In 1950, for the first time, more than half of all occupied housing units were owned instead of rented. The homeownership rate increased until 1980, decreased slightly in the 1980s and then rose again to its highest level of the century in 2000 66 percent.
• The 1930s was the only decade when the proportion of owner-occupied housing units declined in every region. The largest increase in homeownership rates for each region then occurred in the next decade when the economy recovered from the Depression and experienced post-World War II prosperity.
• Between 1950 and 2000, married-couple households declined from more than three-fourths of all households to just over one-half.
• The proportional share of one-person households increased more than households of any other size. In 1950, one-person households represented 1-in-10 households; by 2000, they comprised 1-in-4.


And with all that..The presidential election still is always close and has been close for a very long time.