Percent Of Population That Are Non-Citizens

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Currently the American Community Survey put out by the US Census Bureau estimates the number of citizens and non-citizens in each blockgroup (a group of similar demographic blocks). This map shows citizenship rates for New York State, from the 2016 ACS 5-year Averages for each Census Tract in New York State.

These estimates are used for many purposes, the most notable is for compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires no dilution of voting power of Citizen Voting Age Participants based on race. The Decennial Census, a full population count has not asked about Citizenship since 1950, preferring to focus on core questions to keep the form as short and easy to fill out as possible. Instead, for VRA purposes, American Community Survey estimates is used to calculating the number of citizens in each political district.

The Trump administration, in an effort to get a supposedly more accurate count of citizens and non-citizens, down to the block level, is adding the question back to the 2020 Decennial Census. Some people, worry that fewer people will fill out a longer census form or that the citizenship questions will lead minorities to not-fill out the forum. Others argue that statistically it is more accurate to estimate a large population, then it is to do a total count -- as estimates can make up for non-participation of certain groups of the population.

Data Source: 2016 ACS 5-year Average, Percentage of Non-Citizens per Census Tract. http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t

November 6, 2019 Morning

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Good morning! Happy Day After Election Day 🛀! So it came and went. Folks voted and we were now have to live with the consequences. Some will be happy, others sad, and it’s going to snow on Thursday. ❄ Next Wednesday starts with the Average Night Below Freezing 🌌. Mostly sunny and 39 degrees at the Elm Ave Park & Ride – CDTA. There is a west breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 11 pm. ☃️ Pleasant walk down to the Park and Ride – I almost always take express in as I like the walk and I have to get there earlier.

Pleasant morning after a rather quiet Election Day 🐴🐖🐘 which I spent home working on electronics projects and riding the exercise bike 🚲. Sometimes a quiet day is nice for a change, and I’m just not super interested in being politically involved these days.

Today will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 47 degrees at 2pm. Five degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 17th. West wind 5 to 11 mph. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning, remaining cloudy in the afternoon. The high last year was 54 degrees. The record high of 73 was set in 2015. 3.2 inches of snow fell back in 1933.❄

The sun will set at 4:42 pm with dusk around 5:12 pm, which is one minute and 11 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 Once again, I remembered to turn the porch light on it and will be on once it gets dark. At sunset, look for mostly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 44 degrees. There will be a west breeze at 5 mph. Not terrible for the day after Election Day. Today will have 10 hours and 7 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 26 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 33 degrees at 10pm. One degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around November 9th. Light and variable wind becoming south around 6 mph after midnight. In 2018, we had cloudy skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 18 occurred back in 1962.

The big story is the couple of inches of wet snow ❄ that are expected to happen Thursday night 🌃 once things cool down and drop before freezing. Not a big amount of snow in Albany – maybe an inch – but the sanders certainly will be out and they’re predicting more snow in points north and west.

Right now, a split verdict on the weekend. 😕 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 38. Sunday, mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Typical average high for the weekend is 51 degrees.

This weekend I will probably head up to the Adirondacks and camp up there ⛺ but I’ll keep an eye on the snowfall estimates and decide from there. I fully expect winter conditions and snow camping, I will probably bring my skis 🎿 just in case. I still want to get out to Madison County before the end of the year but only if the roads aren’t too icy out that way.

As previously noted, next Wednesday is Average Night Below Freezing 🌌 when the sun will be setting at 4:35 pm with dusk at 5:05 pm. On that day in 2018, we had rain and temperatures between 44 and 32 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 49 degrees. We hit a record high of 69 back in 1964.

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