Population Increase in North Dakota
Published by gwen December 28th, 2007 in Business, Uncategorized.For years North Dakota has had to deal with the stigma of losing population as young people graduated from high school and college and moved out of state. Now the tide has turned. People are becoming aware of the opportunities in North Dakota and are coming to take advantage of them. This article provides some details.
From the article:
Census figures released today show North Dakota is growing.
New estimates show that North Dakota has added more than 2,000 people in the last year.
It’s the third time in four years our state has seen population growth.
(Shane Goettle / ND Commerce Dir.) “It validates what doing here and that’s creating opportunities that can retain and create opportunities in the state and that’s key to our future and economic vitality.”
In figures released today, the U.S. Census Bureau lists North Dakota’s population is nearly 640,000 people.
That’s up 7,000 from the decade low recorded in 2003.
According to the figures, North Dakota is still 2,500 people short of the census population taken in 2000. The only other state that has a decrease in the number of residents over that time period is Louisiana. And we all know why that is.
That was the result of George W. Bush, in his hatred of black people, steering the government’s secret Hurricane Machine™ toward New Orleans.
As a Bismarck resident, I’ve been watching this rapid growth and influx of people with a keen interest. Not everybody that comes here leaves their problems behind. That means being on the lookout for any potential increases in crime, domestic abuse, or illegal drugs.
As an example I’ll use a two hour interview I did with a federal gang and narcotics expert a while back. He described how the gangs work their way to rural areas, even to the point of doing “market research” to pinpoint areas prone to addiction such as reservation communities. He elaborated on how they can track the tendrils of the gang infestation by even the taggers spraying graffiti in these neighborhoods. There’s been a bit of tagging going on in the Bismarck-Mandan area lately, by the way.
I’m not being xenophobic about it, just employing a healthy caution. People should be welcomed to North Dakota but also clued in that we expect a certain level of personal conduct. That “Prairie Sensibility” we’re known for doesn’t have to be crowded out by a surge of population growth.
Clint
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