Talk:Demographics of Philadelphia
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[edit] Beef
I split this article off from the Philadelphia main page. I'm new so please let me know if I overstepped my bounds or did something incorrectly. Thanks! Passdoubt | Talk 07:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Language Map
I hate to be a thorn, but i am going to take issue with one part of your explanation on the language map. For West Philadelphia you state that the reason for the high percentages is because of Subsaharan Africans population in the area. While i don't discount the contributions of persons from that region of the world to the contributions of the stats, i would seriously doubt that they would make up primary reason or soul reason why the percentages are higher as opposed to other parts of the city. Instead i think the the high level in the area corresponds to the student bodies of the three universities located in the area, Penn, Drexel and Sciences. My reasons for this are several. First the area of which their is this rise in the percentage is roughly the boundary of the University City District, discounting the students that live in dorms, a majority of the housing stock in that are is more geared to student housing, and in particular grad housing. These bounds will also come what be similar to those in the children under 5 map, with the only major difference being the western edge, but even still rates in that area still show low rates for children under 5. Also both Drexel and Penn attack a high number of international students, many of which do not come from the English speaking world, as well as having high percentage of Asian/Pacific Islander, and in the case of Penn; Hispanic/Latino, groups in their students bodies, where even if you were to discount for those that re international, it would not be uncommon to find those that come from households that English is not the first language. Well theses are just my thought on the subject. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 07:47, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Keystone Demographics Vandal
Apparently the vandal that i have labled the Keystone Demographics Vandal, now operating under the ip of 72.81.113.25 (talk • contribs), has decided to hit this page with his made up Demographic projections. I have since removed them since the projections divison has not released any such numbers. Edits from similar ips to articles or sections of articles regarding the Demographics of areas in Pennsylvania, should be conidered suspect. For more information see, Talk:Pennsylvania. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 03:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
obvious problem since the article contradicts the main philadelphia article (main article says 40.0% white, dem. article says 45.0% white). which one is correct?
[edit] Race demographic contradiction
obvious problem since the article contradicts the main philadelphia article (main article says 40.0% white, dem. article says 45.0% white). which one is correct?
