Dividing Nebraska

Thursday, March 19, 2009 ·

By Ian Kleine

In the recent census conducted, Nebraska has an approximate population of over at least one million seven hundred thousand people in the state. Immigration into the state has added at least twenty seven thousand people, while migration decreased the population by thirty seven thousand, making a net loss of ten thousand over all.

The most dense and the center of population in Nebraska is in Polk County, in the city of Shelby. At least fifty percent of the population are white Americans, with the remaining consisting of Hispanics. The latter fillers are composed by the Germans, the Irish, the British, the Swedish and the Czech. One county in particular, Thurston County, has a majority group of mostly American Indians. And another county has but Czech-American mixture.

The state of Nebraska has been experiencing a sudden loss in its population, not due to the increasing death rate (if anything else, the baby population is doing quite well), but because of the immigration patterns that have been happening over the years.

At least more than fifty of the states have reported a loss of populations starting the 19th century. Others have reported growth however, denoting that a shift was more of the cause for the population loss. The phenomenon blamed for this is probably rural flying, or the option of parents to send their kids elsewhere for the sake of academics and schooling. The lack of students in the cities and in the whole state has placed most of the schools in a lot of compromises just to adjust. This further stunts the academic growth (and improvement) in the whole state.

Nebraska has a large Christian population, with Protestants making up at least 60% of the whole population. The Roman Catholic denomination makes up for at least half of the population of the Protestants, and the rest are made up by other denominations of the Christian church.

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