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Census shows country is on the mot
South saw an extra 1.8 million residents in five-year
By Genaro C. Armas
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — America really is a
country on the move. In the last five years of
the 20th century, close to half the population
packed up and moved to different homes.
Usually, the moving van didn’t have to
travel too far — nearly one-quarter of the
country’s 262.4 million people 5 and older
moved to a new address in the same county,
according to a Census Bureau report
Tuesday.
The South attracted the most trans
plants — 1.8 million more than moved out
of the region — while the West stayed
about even and the Northeast and Midwest
saw declines.
Nevada, the fastest-growing state dur
ing the 1990s, had the highest percentage
of movers — 63 percent — followed by
Colorado and Arizona, both at 56 percent.
About one-quarter of Nevada’s population
moved in from another state between 1995
and 2000.
The study, culled from responses to the
2000 head count, didn’t include an age
breakdown or a look at why people moved,
only if they did and where they did.
But typically, the type of move depends
on a person’s age, said John Logan, sociolo
gist at the State University of New York at
Albany. Long-distance moves are most
common among people from their late teens
to early 30s, primarily for college or a better
job, he said.
“Long-distance moves have generally
been about making a significant change in
your life and hoping to build a better
future, and that has been
especially the case for
young adults who are free
to do that,” he said.
People in their mid-30s
through 50s with children
tend to make more shorter
moves in search of a bigger
home or quieter neighbor
hood, he noted, while those
in their 60s and older move
to warm-weather climates
or closer to family mem
bers after retirement.
Overall, 45.9 percent of
the 262.4 million U.S. resi
dents age 5 and older in
2000 had moved in the pre
vious five years, according
to the Census Bureau. That
figure includes 7.5 million
people who moved to
America from abroad.
The five-year moving
rate has hovered at about 46
percent since 1970.
Warm-weather destinations in the South
and West that were unattractive decades ago
are now more livable because of technology
and upgraded infrastructure systems, said
Robert Lang, a demographer at the
Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in
Alexandria, Va.
“Air conditioning and the interstate high
way system defeated the remoteness of
these places,” Lang said.
Such states have also become popular
retirement destinations, said the bureau’s
Carol Faber, an author of the report.
Mobile Americans
Americans are moving, but they
don’t go very far. In the last five
years, 46 percent of the pop
ulation ages five and older left their percent. That area inchi
Communities near
tary bases and collet
towns have the highestpr
portion of movers, led
the Jacksonville, N,
metropolitan area ai
homes, but over half of those
stayed within the same county.
24.9%
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Michigan.
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of Louisiana-Lafayette sociologist.
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people who moved between 1995 and 2000.
AP
Faith takes root in Texas inner cities
By Bobby Ross Jr.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — A “Jesus in the Hood” banner
hangs on the dusty white wall of a makeshift
sanctuary in East Dallas.
Just after 8 a.m. on a Tuesday, gospel music
blares from a stereo in this old building with fold
ing chairs and exposed ceiling pipes. About 40
men and women, many clad in
tattered jeans and T-shirts, clap
and sway as they sing “Lord, You
Are Good” and “Come, Holy
Spirit.”
White, black and Hispanic,
they have come to a voluntary
service at the Reconciliation
Outreach ministry office before a
food pantry offering day-old
bread, cakes and doughnuts
opens next door.
An elegant-looking woman in
a black dress and sandals walks in
and finds a seat near the back. To
the casual observer, this one-time
New York debutante might look
out of place. But make no mis
take, this is home — at least in the spiritual sense
— for the Rev. Dorothy Moore.
The 67-year-old wife of a corporate lawyer
from Texas grew up in a world of fine china and
chauffeurs, but finds fulfillment as a minister to
the downtrodden and homeless.
The journey for this mother of four began
about 30 years ago. She committed herself to
Christian work, but her transformation did not
occur overnight. It took years, she said, before
she fully understood what God wanted her to do.
She discovered her calling, as she considers it,
when she helped organize a 1986 tent crusade
aimed at inner-city youths. The next year, Moore
started Reconciliation Outreach, which provides
housing, food and clothing for the homeless and
needy in an East Dallas neighborhood once bet
ter known for crack houses than coffee houses.
“When I saw the conditions that the kids were
in here, it just touches your heart,” she said.
In the early years, she dodged bullets and
gang violence and mourned two
young friends caught in the
crossfire. She drew threats for
leading an anti-drug march.
Violence in the neighborhood
has declined, thanks in part to
the work of Moore.
“I just think she has done
wonders,” said Mitchell
Rasansky, a Dallas city council
man. “There’s not too many
people who will go into a neigh
borhood like that and do the
work she’s been doing.”
Before he met Moore,
Thomas Smith, 51, lived on the
streets. Smith still walks with a
severe limp, the product of years of excessive
drinking and sleeping on concrete and under
bridges.
“If it had not been for her and a place like this,
there’s no telling what would have happened to
me,” he said.
In addition to providing food, clothing and
temporary housing for about 150 people.
Reconciliation Outreach serves more than 700
families and single adults each year through its
life rehabilitation program.
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— Mitchell Rasansky
Dallas city councilman
NEWS IN BRIEF
Work set to begin on
El Paso veteran's horn
EL PASO, Texas (AP)-El Past
area veterans suffering from
Alzheimer’s Disease soon will be!
able to get treatment at a newve!
erans home expected to open in
2005, officials said Wednesday ai
a groundbreaking for the facility.
The 160-bed, $9.7 million home
also is expected to employ abou!
150 people and give the El Paso
economy a boost with its
than $3 million annual p
Sixty of the beds — in a secure
separate wing — will be
for Alzheimer’s care.
As of Sept. 8, there were
nursing homes in El Paso Count}
with certified Alzheimer’s-caft
beds. More than 2,100 of tbs
county’s 56,000 veterans
thought to have the disease.
The state now has four veteran:
homes, which are located
Bonham, Temple, Big Spring;
Floresville. Groundbreaking
another new veterans home
McAllen is scheduled for n
month.
The home in El Paso is be
built on nearly 43 acres given bf
Fort Bliss to the city. It was partol
a firing range used for small arms
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