Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 211: "The Bizarre Logic Of Counting The Population Of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands"
This is the bonus show for Episode 211! (U.S. Minor Outlying Islands)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of the U.S. Census, its flip-flopping on whether anyone lives on U.S. Outlying Minor Islands, and bizarre diplomatic and philosophical questions that raises.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
2020 Island Areas Censuses (IAC) Demographic Profile Summary File (U.S. Census Bureau)
First 2020 Census U.S. Island Areas Data Released Today: 2020 Population of U.S. Island Areas Just Under 339,000 (U.S. Census Bureau)
2020 Census Results (U.S. Census Bureau)
Population and Housing Units: 1980 to 2000; and Area Measurements: 2000 (U.S. Census Bureau)
About the Decennial Census of Population and Housing (U.S. Census Bureau)
16 Atlantic crossings, 0 lives lost and 1 baby boy: The Jeanie Johnston famine ship in numbers (RTE Ireland)
Ted Cruz and John McCain Share History in Questions Over ‘Natural Born’ Status (The New York Times)
Ted Cruz’s Presidential Eligibility (FactCheck.org)
Barack Obama born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961 (Politico)
Hawaii: Basic Information (U.S. Census Bureau)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free