Via The New York Times:
Maine, Michigan, North Dakota and Vermont had net losses of about one in 10 of their young people from 2000 to 2009, as the populations of Northeastern and Midwestern states continued to age faster than those in the Sun Belt, according to new Census Bureau data.
Since 2000, half the states registered a decline in the number of people younger than 18.
Michigan’s under-18 population declined by nearly 246,000, or 9.5 percent, surpassed in raw numbers only by New York’s loss of 266,000, or 5.7 percent.
Higher birthrates among immigrants and the migration of younger job-seekers mean that in seven states, non-Hispanic whites now constitute a minority of people under 18.
Those states are Arizona, California, Hawaii, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.
In addition, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey and New York are on the brink of reaching that benchmark.
The latest figures are from census data on the voting-age population that was released Thursday.
Among the biggest losers of young people, besides Michigan and New York, were Ohio and Pennsylvania. Vermont’s under-18 population dwindled by 14 percent.
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