Data on America's Fastest Growing Counties
Florida's Flagler Leads the List, but Metro Areas Nationwide Attract Gains
LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Looking for where consumers are going and growing? You may not need to leave your state. The nation's 100 fastest-growing counties are spread across 28 states, with hot pockets of growth far from the Sun Belt.
To be sure, advantage goes to sunny climes. Counties in the five states with the biggest overall population gains since 2000 -- California, Texas, Florida, Georgia and Arizona -- accounted for well over half of the 100 hot counties.
Top 10 - Fastest Growing Counties
1 Flagler FL Palm Coast, FL
2 Loudoun VA Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
3 Henry GA Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA
4 Paulding GA Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA
5 Newton GA Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA
6 Rockwall TX Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
7 Douglas CO Denver-Aurora, CO
8 Forsyth GA Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA
9 Kendall IL Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI
10 Osceola FL Orlando-Kissimmee, FL
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Date: 6/19/2006
Mixed-Race Asians Find Pride as Hapas
Kip Fulbeck, a Santa Barbara artist, filmmaker, athlete and art professor who is of Chinese, Irish, Welsh and English descent, was born at a time when several states still banned mixed-race marriages and the children of such unions were routinely stigmatized.
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But 41 years later, as interracial marriages have exponentially increased, Fulbeck is now celebrated as one of the nation's leading artists focused on work about mixed-race Asians, known as "hapas."
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He recently published a book on hapa identity, "Part Asian 100% Hapa," and this weekend opened a related photographic exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo
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"Before, people would look at you like you were a science experiment," said Fulbeck, a lanky Fontana native who sports a surfer's tan and a waist-up Japanese tattoo."Now, we're everywhere."
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Hapas number 1.6 million in the United States, according to the 2000 census, which for the first time allowed people to claim more than one race.
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Nearly one-third of the nation's hapas live in California, 11% of the state's total Asian American population and the largest concentration of hapas outside Hawaii.
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Hapas and other mixed-race groups have their own websites, social clubs, campus groups, films and literature. Their ranks include golfer Tiger Woods, actor Keanu Reeves, supermodel Devon Aoki and musician Sean Lennon. Lennon, son of the Japanese Yoko Ono and the British John Lennon, wrote the forward to Fulbeck's book.
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Date: 6/11/2006
Fathers Day Fast Facts
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US Census Bureau: The idea of Father’s Day was conceived by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm.
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66.3 million Estimated number of - fathers across the nation today. (From unpublished data.)
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Nearly 95 million - The estimated number of Father’s Day cards given last year in the United States, making Father’s Day the fourth-largest card-sending occasion. (Source: Hallmark research)
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50% - Percentage of all Father’s Day cards that are purchased specifically by sons and/or daughters. Nearly 20 percent of Father’s Day cards are purchased by wives for their husbands; the remaining cards are bought for grandfathers, sons, brothers, uncles and “someone special.” (Source: Hallmark research)
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72% - Percentage of Americans who plan to celebrate or acknowledge Father’s Day. (Source: Hallmark research and National Retail Federation.)
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9,189 - Neckties lead the list of Father’s Day gifts. A good place to buy dad a tie or a shirt might be one of 9,189 men’s clothing stores around the country in 2003.
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Date: 6/10/2006
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