Read more demographics stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8627/demographics.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:46:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73278/sorry-dems-2008-is-so-last-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLast night’s gubernatorial defeats proved to Democrats that whatever magic they harnessed last November has left the building. Off-year elections aren’t usually great predictors, but with the Democrats’ winning 2008 coalition essentially absent, the warning signs are clear, writes Dan Balz in the Washington Post . Most notably, Democrats lost the...http://www.newser.com/story/73278/sorry-dems-2008-is-so-last-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Nov 2009 7:45:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/66084/what-turning-30-really-means.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhat does turning 30 mean, anyway? Sam Greenspan knows, because he got Book of Ages: 30 for his, um, 30th birthday. He runs down 11 factoids on the appropriately named 11 Points website. A sampling: 30-year-olds keep resolutions: Though 26% less likely to make New Years resolutions, 30-somethings are 26%...http://www.newser.com/story/66084/what-turning-30-really-means.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 19:07:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64894/census-shows-minorities-role-in-obama-victory.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIncreased turnout by minorities in last year's election helped Barack Obama take several swing states and advance in GOP strongholds, new data from the Census Bureau shows. Turnout was 64%, the same as the last presidential election—but a growing population means that 5 million more people voted in 2008...http://www.newser.com/story/64894/census-shows-minorities-role-in-obama-victory.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Jul 2009 8:03:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63615/conan-woos-far-younger-tonight-show-crowd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn just one month, Conan O’Brien has lowered the median age of the Tonight Show audience by 10 years, from 55 to 45, the New York Times reports. Conan has radically reshaped the demographics of the program by drawing an unprecedented number of new viewers aged 18 to 34—and...http://www.newser.com/story/63615/conan-woos-far-younger-tonight-show-crowd.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Jul 2009 1:21:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63090/japans-latest-fad-spouse-hunting.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome call it a passing fad, but in Japan, konkatsu—"marriage hunting"—has inspired events in venues ranging from bars to baseball stadiums, the Wall Street Journal reports. A book that uses the word, punning on the words for “marriage” and “activity,” has sold 170,000 copies in Japan, where...http://www.newser.com/story/63090/japans-latest-fad-spouse-hunting.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 10:59:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62040/as-calif-righty-bastion-orange-county-cedes-to-rural-placer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPlacer County, Calif.—stretching from Sacramento east to Lake Tahoe—is this generation’s Orange County, and that bodes ill for conservatives, Tom Schaller writes on FiveThirtyEight.com. Placer’s demographics and voting record are similar to the Orange County of the 1960s, which birthed the modern conservative movement. But, Schaller writes,...http://www.newser.com/story/62040/as-calif-righty-bastion-orange-county-cedes-to-rural-placer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Jun 2009 15:20:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60016/next-years-census-will-be-biggest-most-costly-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNext year’s US census will be the largest and costliest ever, requiring 140,000 workers and $15 billion, the Chicago Tribune reports. Thousands of employees have already hit the field to confirm addresses in an effort to ensure oft-underrepresented renters, minorities, and the homeless are accurately counted. Other census matters...http://www.newser.com/story/60016/next-years-census-will-be-biggest-most-costly-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 25 May 2009 11:02:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56933/census-fewer-americans-moving-in-tough-times.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe economy is doing a number on Americans' wanderlust. The number of people who switched residences last year dropped to 35.2 million, the lowest since 1962, the New York Times reports. The Census Bureau pegs the nation's mobility rate at 11.9%, down from 13.2% last year and...http://www.newser.com/story/56933/census-fewer-americans-moving-in-tough-times.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Apr 2009 18:54:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/47952/nate-silver-win-the-cities-win-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's strength in cities won him the election, meaning he "might be America's first urban" president, statistics whiz Nate Silver writes in Esquire . Obama's "pragmatic, superior, hip, stubborn, multicultural" ways make him unmistakably urban, Silver writes, and America's changing demographics mean that urban voters matter now more than ever.http://www.newser.com/story/47952/nate-silver-win-the-cities-win-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Jan 2009 20:54:53 CST