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A map showing the 56 counties that the Census 2000 reported as growing when, except for prisoners counted as residents, they shrank during the 1990s.

Data Source: U.S. Census 2000. (Map: Rose Heyer, 2004)

This map originally appeared in Too big to ignore: How counting people in prisons distorted Census 2000.



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