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Census

Nearly a hundred years ago two rival cities fought hard and dirty to win the battle of numbers

In mandating a national census every ten years, the framers of the U.S. Constitution envisioned a counting, not a bashing, of heads.

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, “said Abraham Lincoln, “we could better judge what to do, and haw to do it. “For nearly two hundred years, the United States Census has been trying to find out.

Americans are a counting nation.

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