Today's samplings give us a quick taste of the demographic and statistical resources out there on the world wide web.
Demographics are dangerous things--their meaning depends on your personal collection of prejudices (pre-judgments as my friend Coye says, but that's another post for another time). However, many structural realities about our current situation come to life when you compare the data from a couple different sources which outlines a couple different variables. Also, keep in mind, all of these resources only help with US research.
Obviously, the first place to start is the Census Fact Finder web page. It's pretty confusing to navigate from the front page (generally, the site does not offer an easy interface). But if you start from the Tables page, you can pretty easily figure out how to get the information your looking for.
For quick snapshots of city demographics, I've found nothing better than the resources at city-data.com. You'll find a well organized data set for nearly every city in the United States on this site.
Short but sweet. Sorry. I'll do more when I have more energy
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