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本章主要介紹了美國1980年人口普查所反映的人口增長、分布和遷移特點及其原因。
World War II
Florida
Texas
California
San Diego
San Antonio
Cleveland
Washington. D. C.

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Americans have been migrating south and west in larger number since World War II, and the pattern still prevails. Three sun-belt states -- Florida, Texas and California -- together had nearly 10 million more people in 1980 than a decade earlier. Among large cities, San Diego moved from 14th to 8th and San Antonio from 15th to 10th -- with Cleveland and Washington. D. C. dropping out of the top ten. Not all that shift can be attributed to the movement out of the snow belt, census officials say, Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too -- and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday's 'baby boom' generation reached its child bearing years.
第二次世界大戰(zhàn)以來,美國人口大量向南部和西部地區(qū)遷移,而且這種趨勢如今仍然盛行。 佛羅里達、得克薩斯和加利福尼亞這三個陽光地帶的州,1980年的人口比前10年增加了近1 000萬。在大城市排行榜上,圣地亞哥從第14位上升到第8位,圣安東尼奧從第15位升到第10位,而克利夫蘭和華盛頓特區(qū)則被擠出了前10位。 人口普查官員說,并非所有這些人口遷移都是為了離開寒冷地帶。不斷涌入的移民,還有往昔"生育高峰"時期出生的一代也已到了生育年齡,生育了大批嬰兒,這些都發(fā)揮著作用。