The Nation - News from Sept. 10, 1985
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Five Sun Belt states will account for more than half of the nation’s population growth through the year 2000, a private research group said. The National Planning Assn. projected that California will continue to be the nation’s biggest population gainer, adding 6,668,000 people between the 1980 Census and 2000. And California, Florida, Texas, Arizona and North Carolina will account for 21.8 million added people by 2000, or 54% of the nation’s total growth.
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