A Demographic Time Bomb

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In 1920, only 50 percent of Americans lived in urban areas, but by the year 2000 the amount of Americans living in cities hit 80 percent. In the span of one generation urban centers consolidated. Nowhere is this more apparent than the West Coast and North East, where urbanization currently stands at 90 percent. This has led to a situation where the most Democratic parts of the country, (the so-called “Left Coast” and Northeast) are drastically…