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This will be more complicated than carving out a new district near the coast. Horry and Charleston are presently part of the 1st district and growth in both counties may allow them to be split but the same thing is even more likely for the upstate where Greenville and Spartanburg will need to be divided into anchors of new districts. Also Richland and Lexington are almost large enough to make up a single district so that could be considered.
If Horry becomes the anchor of a new district it will need a lot of help because it only has about a third of the population needed for a congressional district. Most of the PeeDee counties are small (population wise).
I wonder what age group the bulk of the population is in??? I mean did we gain more retirees or more people that are in the workforce that moved here because of jobs???
I'm curious about that too. I imagine once the bean counters get ahold of the data we will find out soon enough. My guess is a big part of the gain were retirees. I once thought they were limited to the upstate and Hilton Head but now I'm finding halfbacks everywhere.
I'm curious about that too. I imagine once the bean counters get ahold of the data we will find out soon enough. My guess is a big part of the gain were retirees. I once thought they were limited to the upstate and Hilton Head but now I'm finding halfbacks everywhere.
While the numbers released Tuesday did not include city and county populations, Bowers said state demographers already have a good idea of which areas grew the most: along with the coast, Lexington, Rock Hill, and the northern part of Lancaster County.
SC one of fastest growing states - S.C. Politics - TheState.com (http://www.thestate.com/2010/12/22/1615716/sc-one-of-fastest-growing-states.html - broken link)
While the numbers released Tuesday did not include city and county populations, Bowers said state demographers already have a good idea of which areas grew the most: along with the coast, Lexington, Rock Hill, and the northern part of Lancaster County.
SC one of fastest growing states - S.C. Politics - TheState.com (http://www.thestate.com/2010/12/22/1615716/sc-one-of-fastest-growing-states.html - broken link)
Wow low taxes are a big part of the reasons why people moved to SC.. Then you hear people clamming for them to go even lower.. I guess its all relative. If I moved here from NJ.. I would care less is a penny is levied on my sales tax.. while someone who has lived in SC their entire life would scream to holy hell.
My beef is that all the articles they'll write once they break it down by counties and MSAs will focus more on growth percentages than on hard numbers. I don't care what percentage of an area's population has moved in. I only care howmanypeople have moved into an area and what the resulting population is. And since no county that isn't part of an MSA is going to grow significantly, I really only care how many people have moved into each MSA and what each MSA's resulting population is.
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