Canadian and American Ancestry?

In 1992, when my family moved (temporarily, as we told our families) from Toronto to Los Angeles, one of our early discoveries was that upon hearing the words ‘out’ or ‘about’, many of our neighbors immediately claimed some level of Canadian heritage. This shouldn’t...

Canada Demographic Overview 2025

The population of Canada has for decades growth at a relatively stable pace of about 1% per year. From 1971 to 2021, the population increased from 21.6 to 36.9 million people, averaging around 1% growth per year. Since the 2021 census, however, the population has...

The Legacy of Eldredge Gerry

The practice of defining electoral districts by putting a finger or two on the scales is nothing new to American politics. In 1812, Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts was certainly not the first to draw electoral districts for the purpose of maximizing his...

Who Should be Counted?

Recent statements by President Trump, in conjunction with a recently introduced house bill, have refueled a contentious issue related to the decennial census and who should be counted. For many reasons, this has become a partisan rather than practical matter, but here...

Diversity and the American City

In recent years, diversity has become one of our cultural buzzwords. Yes, the United States is more ethnically diverse, but does this translate to more diverse neighborhoods in our major cities? To find out, we used both our diversity measure and a categorical measure...