> Of the cited increase in poverty, a conservative colleague of mine
> retorted: "The percentage of Americans 'living in poverty' is
> guaranteed to increase in any year where the growth in the immigrant
> population exceeds the growth in the native population. Which is
> every year. Its a statistical illusion which, if you controlled for
> status of immigration, vanishes."
>
> Is this true?
>
> stannard
>
(bs detector set to incinerate)
By "Native Population", this means the immigrants that are already here... Right?
Certainly his conservative collegues aren't waiting for a resurgence in the First American population of the continental U.S.?
"If they can get people to ask the wrong questions they don't have to worry about the answers" --Thomas Pynchon, Proverbs for paranods, Gravity's Rainbow.
Leigh www.leighm.net