What has been predicted for a few years has finally happened! The Census Bureau announced new population figures yesterday,
Florida, the Sunshine State, has finally surpassed New York as the number three state in population!
Florida in July 2014 had 19.9 million residents to New York’s 19.7 million people, behind California with 38.8 million and Texas with 27 million.
Overall, the population of the nation increased to about 319 million.
803 residents are being added daily to Florida, while six states–Illinois, West Virginia, Connecticut, New Mexico, Alaska and Vermont—actually lost population.
The top ten states in growth were all Sunbelt states, except for North Dakota, gaining population because of the oil boom in that state.
2.4 million people were added to the population from the previous year.
The power of the Sun Belt continues to grow, while the top four states now have a combined population of 105.4 million, about one third of the entire nation!
This means that the top four states with one third of the people have only eight Senators, while the remaining 46 states have the other 92 Senators, an extremely undemocratic situation, something that the Founding Fathers could not have imagined when they created the Constitution and set up the US Senate as a government institution!