User:Moverton/Projects/U.S. state demographic tables

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The purpose of this project is to improve the state demographics sections by incorporating the following:

[edit] Historical census populations

The tables will use the following code:

{| class="toccolours" align="right" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin:0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 95%;"
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! colspan=2 bgcolor="#ccccff" align="center"| Historical populations
|-
! align="center"| Census<br>year !! align="right"| Population
|-
| colspan=2|<hr>
|-
| align="center"| 1860 || align="right"| 107,206
|-
| align="center"| 1870 || align="right"| 364,399
|-
| align="center"| 1880 || align="right"| 996,096
|-
| align="center"| 1890 || align="right"| 1,428,108
|-
| align="center"| 1900 || align="right"| 1,470,495
|-
| align="center"| 1910 || align="right"| 1,690,949
|-
| align="center"| 1920 || align="right"| 1,769,257
|-
| align="center"| 1930 || align="right"| 1,880,999
|-
| align="center"| 1940 || align="right"| 1,801,028
|-
| align="center"| 1950 || align="right"| 1,905,299
|-
| align="center"| 1960 || align="right"| 2,178,611
|-
| align="center"| 1970 || align="right"| 2,246,578
|-
| align="center"| 1980 || align="right"| 2,363,679
|-
| align="center"| 1990 || align="right"| 2,477,574
|-
| align="center"| [[United States 2000 Census|2000]] || align="right"| 2,688,418
|}

[edit] Race

Currently assembling the data, but have constructed initial examples (see Kansas, and surrounding states).

More to come...

[edit] References

References will be coded as follows:

*[[U.S. Census Bureau]].
**[http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/20000.html Kansas QuickFacts].  Geographic and demographic information.
**[http://www.census.gov/population/documentation/twps0056/tab31.pdf Kansas - Race and Hispanic Origin: 1860 to 1990] {{PDFlink}}

Example:

The actual links and titles for each state's article will be changed accordingly.