TheFirearmsForum.Com http://www.thefirearmsforum.com This is a site with a network of several discussion forums, and more. To find out more about The Firearms Forum.com, go to http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/ en Thu, 17 May 2012 15:30:38 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/images/misc/rss.jpg TheFirearmsForum.Com http://www.thefirearmsforum.com Engraving on a Wm. Henry folder http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107092&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 14:54:28 GMT Just finished this one. Even I said "WOW!"
]]> BrianPowley http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107092 FOR BILL DeSHIVS http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107091&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 14:22:33 GMT Bill these are the pics I mentioned in the private message. Thanks for looking. Bill these are the pics I mentioned in the private message. Thanks for looking.
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]]> JUNKKING http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107091 do you use a shotgun for HD? http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107090&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 13:53:33 GMT if so check out these selections at wolf hill! be sure to took at the exotic rounds for the Judge! http://wolfhilltradingco.com/ if so check out these selections at wolf hill! be sure to took at the exotic rounds for the Judge!

http://wolfhilltradingco.com/ ]]> hunter29180 http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107090 Finally someone mentions the elephant in the room http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107089&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 13:41:01 GMT http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...as-sowell?pg=2

Editorial about race crime being hushed up by authorities...when it's the wrong race doing the crime. ]]> The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum armoredman http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107089 critters in my yard http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107088&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 13:34:36 GMT These javelina come in quite often and the wife won't let me shoot them. They don't scare easily.
We get to see lots of elk and deer and a bobcat and fox on occasion. i'll send some pics as I get them in the future.
http://s283.photobucket.com/albums/k...DSCN0131-1.jpg
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UF ]]> General Discussion UncleFudd http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107088 <![CDATA[Trayvon Martin shot at "Intermediate Range"]]> http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107087&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 12:30:56 GMT http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/16/11736208-trayvon-martin-killed-by-single-gunshot-fired-from-intermediate-range-autopsy-shows?lite ---Quote--- Florida teenager Trayvon Martin died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from “intermediate range,” according to an autopsy report... http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...psy-shows?lite


Quote:
Florida teenager Trayvon Martin died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from “intermediate range,” according to an autopsy report reviewed Wednesday by NBC News.
In a close combat defensive shooting like this one. What is "Intermediate Range"? I know 90+% of all SD shooting happen at 21' or less. So what is intermediate range? To me it is 4 to 5 feet. Or the distance from a man laying on the ground to an average height man standing over him ready to punch him in the face. Is there an exact distance for this term or is it relitive. I mean In rifle terms that is about 300 to 500 yards. ]]> cpttango30 http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107087 Just heard! http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107086&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 12:23:56 GMT Was talking with a guy at work, and he said that Haritage Firearms just got bought out by Ruger. Does anyone have any imfo on that? Was talking with a guy at work, and he said that Haritage Firearms just got bought out by Ruger. Does anyone have any imfo on that? ]]> General Discussion gun-nut http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107086 WHEN http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107085&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 11:43:27 GMT WHEN - he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Muramar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - his voting record in the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he surrounded himself in the White House with advisors who were pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco - a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home - people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he started appointing White House Czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist /Communists, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he stood before the Nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this Nation" into something else, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed a Science Czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Cass Sunstein as Regulatory Czar who believes in "Explicit Consent," harvesting human organs without family consent and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual and organizer of a group called Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network as Safe School Czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Mark Lloyd as Diversity Czar who believes in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth, who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - Valerie Jarrett, an avowed Socialist, was selected as Obama's Senior White House Advisor, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Carol Browner, a well known socialist as Global Warming Czar working on Cap and Trade as the nation's largest tax, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as Green Energy Czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - as President of the United States , he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , people said it didn't matter..

WHEN - he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - his actions concerning the Middle East seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel , our long time ally, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States , people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops early-on when the Field Commanders said they were necessary to win, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions, and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he claimed he was a Christian during the election and tapes were later made public that showed Obama speaking to a Muslim group and 'stating' that he was raised a Muslim, was educated as a Muslim, and is still a Muslim, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State , people woke up--- but it was too late. Add these up one by one and you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that Barrack Hussein Obama is determined to turn America into a Marxist-Socialist society.

All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this do an Internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph.

Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ?

Don't just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. We all need to pull together or watch the demise of a free democratic
society. Pray for Americans to seek the truth and take action for it will keep us FREE. Our biggest enemy is not China , Russia , North Korea or Iran . Our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington , DC . The government will not help, so we need to do it ourselves.

Question....will you delete this, or pass it on to others who don't know about Obama's actions and plans for the USA , so that they may know how to vote in November, 2012 and the ensuing years?

It's your decision. I believe it does matter. How about you?

WHEN - November 2012 comes, it will matter who you vote for! ]]> The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum sting75ray http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107085 Protesters coming to Chicago http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107084&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 11:36:20 GMT This could get out of hand real fast....

Thousands of police officers — including reinforcements from Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Charlotte — will be deployed; a no-fly zone will be enforced; and some commuter trains will be canceled. Businesses are boarding up windows; Lake Shore Drive and the Art Institute will close, and the Postal Service warns of delivery delays.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ity/55030824/1 ]]> The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum gvw3 http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107084 are the MSM being bought? or just stupid ? http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107083&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:56 GMT big article in the news here , a new steak!!! yes some bloke claimed he scoured the critters carcass and patented a new steak ! story here http://www.news.com.au/world/meat-geek-claims-to-have-found-the-legendary-lost-steak-in-vegas-next-to-the-chips/story-e6frfkyi-1226358960516 the media... big article in the news here , a new steak!!!

yes some bloke claimed he scoured the critters carcass and patented a new steak ! story here

http://www.news.com.au/world/meat-ge...-1226358960516


the media loves it

no-one obviously read the patent

http://www.google.com/patents/US20070172576

Quote:
Improved restructured meat products are provided which exhibit enhanced texture, tenderness, juiciness, and flavor. The meat products are formed by mixing together brine-treated, essentially gristle free raw meat strips (e.g., beef, poultry, pork or mixtures thereof) in the form of strips and ground beef containing naturally-occurring fat, followed by forming the mixture into steak-like bodies.


seriously ?? ]]> The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum jack404 http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107083 AGAIN, THAT TIE-IN...THAT WARNING. http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107082&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 09:54:27 GMT May 16, 2012 Brain Ailments in Veterans Likened to Those in Athletes By JAMES DAO Scientists who have studied a degenerative brain disease in athletes have found the same condition in combat veterans exposed to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, concluding that such explosions injure... May 16, 2012


Brain Ailments in Veterans Likened to Those in Athletes

By JAMES DAO


Scientists who have studied a degenerative brain disease in athletes have found the same condition in combat veterans exposed to roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, concluding that such explosions injure the brain in ways strikingly similar to tackles and punches.

The researchers also discovered what they believe is the mechanism by which explosions damage brain tissue and trigger the wasting disease, called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., by studying simulated explosions on mice. The animals developed evidence of the disease just two weeks after exposure to a single simulated blast, researchers found.

“Our paper points out in a profound and definitive way that there is an organic, structural problem in the brain associated with blast exposure,” said Dr. Lee E. Goldstein of Boston University’s School of Medicine and a lead author of the paper, which was published online Wednesday by the peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine.

The paper provides the strongest evidence yet that some and perhaps many combat veterans with invisible brain injuries caused by explosions are at risk of developing long-term neurological disease — a finding that, if confirmed, would have profound implications for military policy, veterans programs and future research.

The study could provide a starting point for developing preventive measures for blast-related brain injuries, as well as drug therapies and diagnostic tests for C.T.E., an incurable disease detected only by autopsy.

“The animal model developed by the researchers will enable a better understanding of the brain pathology involved in blast injuries and, ideally, lead to new therapies to help service members and veterans with traumatic brain injuries,” said Dr. Joel Kupersmith, the chief research and development officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which helped finance the research.

The paper also seems likely to fuel a debate that has raged for decades over whether veterans who struggle emotionally and psychologically after returning from war suffer from psychiatric problems or brain injuries.

Dr. Goldstein and his co-lead author, Dr. Ann McKee, co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, assert that their paper shows that many of those veterans probably have organic brain injuries and should be given appropriate treatment and disability compensation.

“Not long ago, people said N.F.L. players with behavior problems were just having problems adjusting to retirement,” Dr. Goldstein said. “Now it’s more or less settled that there is a disease associated with their problems. But we do not have that consensus in the military world yet.”

Since 2001, the military has confirmed traumatic brain injury — widely considered the precursor to C.T.E. — in more than 220,000 of the 2.3 million troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, though some experts believe the actual number is higher. There is no way yet of estimating how many of those combat veterans may develop the disease.

Some experts who have read the paper questioned the authors’ conclusions, saying that there was not enough data to conclude that blast exposure leads to C.T.E. Dr. McKee autopsied only four veterans, and three of them had head injuries from multiple sources, making it hard to determine the cause of the disease, they said.

“It’s too small of a sample size,” said Dr. David Hovda, director of the Brain Injury Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a health adviser to the Pentagon.

But Dr. Hovda said that the growing body of research linking C.T.E. to multiple head injuries was “quite remarkable.”

Dr. Daniel P. Perl, professor of pathology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the military’s medical school, said the study did not convince him that the injuries from blast exposure were identical to head injuries from sports, and he questioned whether data from the mouse research was applicable to humans. But Dr. Perl, who has just started his own project to study the brains of military personnel, called the paper “an important contribution.”

While acknowledging some issues in using mice, Dr. McKee said that animal tests helped resolve a problem scientists face in studying C.T.E.: human patients typically suffer concussions in several ways, whether from car accidents, sports or combat. With mice, the researchers could ensure that the brain damage was caused solely by blast exposure.

C.T.E. causes neurological decay and is linked to memory loss, personality changes, impaired judgment, depression and dementia. A once obscure disorder thought mainly to afflict boxers, it has entered the popular lexicon in recent years as more athletes have received the diagnosis, including David Duerson, the former All-Pro defensive back for the Chicago Bears, who killed himself last year.

The new study out of Boston is just the second time scientists have found C.T.E. in combat veterans. Last fall, a team of researchers led by Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered evidence of the disease in a 27-year-old Iraq war veteran who committed suicide in 2010. The former Marine had reported being close to mortar blasts and roadside bombs in Iraq, but also experienced multiple concussions from contact sports.

Dr. Omalu, the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, Calif., said he was preparing another paper documenting C.T.E. in eight veterans who had received diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder before they died.

Dr. McKee, who directs a brain donation center at the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Bedford, Mass., said it took her four years to gain access to the brains of the four veterans. Three of the veterans had single or multiple exposures to blasts, while a fourth had multiple concussions from football and vehicle accidents.

She compared tissue samples from those veterans with the brains of four athletes — three amateur football players and a professional wrestler — three of whom reported multiple concussions and all of whom died in their teens or 20s. She also studied the brains of four people with no record of concussions.

In all the veterans and athletes, Dr. McKee found the signature evidence of early phase C.T.E.: dead or dying neurons, abnormal clumps of a toxic protein and damaged axons, the fibers that transmit signals between nerve cells. She found no evidence of the disease in the people with no reported concussions.

For the animal part of the study, Dr. Goldstein developed a 27-foot-long “shock tube” to simulate explosions. At one end of the aluminum tube the researchers attached a device that uses compressed nitrogen to explode a Mylar membrane, generating force equal to the explosion of a 120-millimeter mortar round. At the other end, they tied down mice, allowing their heads to move freely.

The researchers found that shock waves from the blast moving at more than 1,000 miles per hour had no perceptible effect on brain tissue. But the subsequent blast wind, traveling at 330 m.p.h., shook the skull violently in what the researchers called “bobblehead effect.”

When the scientists examined specially stained tissue from the mouse brains under microscopes just two weeks later, they found the telltale signs of C.T.E.

The scientists also found that mice exposed to blasts showed short-term memory loss and declines in learning capacity just a few weeks later.

But when the researchers immobilized mouse heads during blasts, the mice did not develop learning problems later, suggesting that the brain trauma might be blocked by preventing the head from snapping around during an explosion.

Dr. Hovda said that one implication of the study might be that “traumatic brain injury is not an event that we recover from.”

“Maybe it is the beginning of a series of events that we have to deal with for years,” he said.

As devastating as that news may seem, it may also provide comfort to some military families.

Jennifer Smith, the widow of Michael Smith, the Marine found to have C.T.E. by Dr. Omalu, said she had gained a better understanding of his suicide after researchers told her his emotional problems might have been the result of a brain injury.

In an interview, Ms. Smith said that after her husband returned from his second tour of Iraq in 2009, he had nightmares and mood swings and seemed angry much of the time. (He also had a concussion from playing football in that period.)

Before he hanged himself in 2010, doctors gave him a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and put him on antidepressant drugs, to no avail, she said.

“He had no control over it,” she said, referring to C.T.E. ]]> VMBB Fire For Effect rooter http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107082 VERY INTERESTING......... http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107081&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 09:35:31 GMT Motion Induced Blindness Demo

AWESOME and REALLY WIERD...


This is important information! Try the test and see how easily you can fail. Keep that head and eyes moving!

Drive safely, some one's life depends on it!


The one major reason people in cars can look right at you (when you're on a motorcycle or bicycle)---AND NOT SEE YOU.

This is very interesting. I did not believe it at first, then I watched this by moving my head to the right so I was viewing the screen from a slight angle... the yellow dots do stay in sight all the time!.

Motion Induced Blindness Demo

This is fascinating! It works exactly like it says, and is one major reason people in cars can look right at you (when you're on a motorcycle or bicycle)---AND NOT SEE YOU.

From a former Naval Aviator.

This is a great illustration
of what we were taught about scanning outside the cockpit when I
went through training back in the '60s. We were told to scan the
horizon for a short distance, stop momentarily, and repeat the
process. I can remember being told why this was the most effective
technique to locate other aircraft. It was emphasized (repeatedly)
to NOT fix your gaze for more than a couple of seconds on any single
object. The instructors, some of whom were WWII veterans with years
of experience, instructed us to continually "keep our eyes moving
and our head on a swivel" because this was the best way to survive,
not only in combat, but from peacetime hazards (like a midair
collision) as well. We basically had to take the advice on faith
(until we could experience for ourselves) because the technology to
demonstrate it didn't exist at that time.

Click on the link below for a demonstration ....

http://www.msf-usa.org/motion.html ]]> VMBB General Discussion rooter http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107081 Reporters Attacked At Ihop http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107080&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 09:33:04 GMT http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=869_1337234280
listen to the rant of "jew" and "cracker" ]]> The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum jack404 http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107080 What have i got myself into http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107079&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 08:22:05 GMT it started with a remote security camera that i could control that had a small solar panel and battery connected

now im co designing a 9mm version of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Bxe...eature=related ]]> General Discussion jack404 http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107079 Minorities now surpass whites in US births http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107078&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 05:48:26 GMT FOR the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the US, capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is now resulting in fewer Hispanics entering the US.
"This is an important landmark," said Roderick Harrison, a former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau who is now a sociologist at Howard University. "This generation is growing up much more accustomed to diversity than its elders."
The report comes as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the legality of Arizona's strict immigration law, with many states weighing similar get-tough measures.
"We remain in a dangerous period where those appealing to anti-immigration elements are fueling a divisiveness and hostility that might take decades to overcome," Harrison said.
As a whole, the nation's minority population continues to rise, following a higher-than-expected Hispanic count in the 2010 census. Minorities increased 1.9 per cent to 114.1 million, or 36.6 per cent of the total U.S. population, lifted by prior waves of immigration that brought in young families and boosted the number of Hispanic women in their prime childbearing years.
But a recent slowdown in the growth of the Hispanic and Asian populations is shifting notions on when the tipping point in US diversity will come - the time when non-Hispanic whites become a minority. After 2010 census results suggested a crossover as early as 2040, demographers now believe the pivotal moment may be pushed back several years when new projections are released in December.
The annual growth rates for Hispanics and Asians fell sharply last year to just over 2 per cent, roughly half the rates in 2000 and the lowest in more than a decade. The black growth rate stayed flat at 1 per cent.
The immigrants staying put in the US for now include Narcisa Marcelino, 34, a single mother who lives with her two daughters, ages 10 and 5, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. After crossing into the US from Mexico in 2000, she followed her brother to the eastern part of the state just outside the Baltimore-Washington region. The Martinsburg area is known for hiring hundreds of migrants annually to work in fruit orchards. Its Hispanic growth climbed from 14 per cent to 18 per cent between 2000 and 2005 before shrinking last year to 3.3 per cent, still above the national average.
Marcelino says she sells food from her home to make ends meet for her family and continues to hope that one day she will get a hearing with immigration officials to stay legally in the US. She aspires to open a restaurant and is learning English at a community college so she can help other Spanish-language speakers.
If she is eventually deported, "it wouldn't be that tragic," Marcelino said. "But because the children have been born here, this is their country. And there are more opportunities for them here."
Of the 30 large metropolitan areas showing the fastest Hispanic growth in the previous decade, all showed slower growth in 2011 than in the peak Hispanic growth years of 2005-2006, when the construction boom attracted new migrants to low-wage work. They include Lakeland, Florida; Charlotte, New Carolina; Atlanta; Provo, Utah; Las Vegas; and Phoenix. All but two - Fort Myers, Florida, and Dallas-Fort Worth - also grew more slowly last year than in 2010, hurt by the jobs slump.
Pointing to a longer-term decline in immigration, demographers believe the Hispanic population boom may have peaked.
"The Latino population is very young, which means they will continue to have a lot of births relative to the general population," said Mark Mather, associate vice president of the Population Reference Bureau. "But we're seeing a slowdown that is likely the result of multiple factors: declining Latina birth rates combined with lower immigration levels. If both of these trends continue, they will lead to big changes down the road."
William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution who analysed the census data, noted that government debates over immigration enforcement may now be less pressing, given slowing growth. "The current congressional and Supreme Court interest in reducing immigration - and the concerns especially about low-skilled and undocumented Hispanic immigration - represent issues that could well be behind us," he said.
Minorities made up roughly 2.02 million, or 50.4 per cent of US births in the 12-month period ending July 2011. That compares with 37 per cent in 1990.
In all, 348 of the nation's 3143 counties, or 1 in 9, have minority populations across all age groups that total more than 50 per cent. In a sign of future U.S. race and ethnic change, the number of counties reaching the tipping point increases to more than 690, or nearly 1 in 4, when looking only at the under age 5 population.
The counties in transition include Maricopa (Phoenix), Ariz.; King (Seattle), Wash.; Travis (Austin), Texas; and Palm Beach, Florida, where recent Hispanic births are driving the increased diversity among children. Also high on the list are suburban counties such as Fairfax, Virginia, just outside the nation's capital, and Westchester, New York, near New York City, where more open spaces are a draw for young families who are increasingly minority.
According to the latest data, the percentage growth of Hispanics slowed from 4.2 per cent in 2001 to 2.5 per cent last year. Their population growth would have been even lower if it weren't for their relatively high fertility rates - seven births for every death. The median age of US Hispanics is 27.6 years.
Births actually have been declining for both whites and minorities as many women postponed having children during the economic slump. But the drop since 2008 has been larger for whites, who have a median age of 42. The number of white births fell by 11.4 per cent, compared with 3.2 per cent for minorities, according to Kenneth Johnson, a sociologist at the University of New Hampshire.
Asian population increases also slowed, from 4.5 per cent in 2001 to about 2.2 per cent. Hispanics and Asians still are the two fastest-growing minority groups, making up about 16.7 per cent and 4.8 per cent of the US population, respectively.
Blacks, who comprise about 12.3 per cent of the population, have increased at a rate of about 1 percent each year. Whites have increased very little in recent years.
Other findings:
-The migration of black Americans back to the South is slowing. New destinations in the South, including Atlanta, Charlotte, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Orlando, Florida, saw sharp drop-offs in black population growth as the prolonged housing bust kept African-Americans locked in place in traditional big cities. Metro areas including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco had reduced declines or gains.
-Nine US counties in five states saw their minority populations across all age groups surpass 50 percent last year. They were Sutter and Yolo in California; Quitman in Georgia; Cumberland in New Jersey; Colfax in New Mexico; and Lynn, Mitchell, Schleicher and Swisher in Texas.
-Maverick County, Texas, had the largest share of minorities at 96.8 percent, followed by Webb County, Texas, and Wade Hampton, Alaska, both at 96 percent.
-Four states - Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Texas - as well as the District of Columbia have minority populations that exceed 50 per cent.
The census estimates used local records of births and deaths, tax records of people moving within the U.S., and census statistics on immigrants. The figures for "white" refer to those whites who are not of Hispanic ethnicity.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...#ixzz1v6S4gIIq ]]> The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum jack404 http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=107078