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The Western U.S. is the most urbanized part of the country today, followed closely by the Northeastern United States. The Southern U.S. experienced rapid industrialization after World War II, and is now over three-quarters urban, having almost the same urban percentage in 2010 as the Midwestern United States. [2]
The term "United States," when used in the geographic sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including the District of Columbia not as a state), Alaska, Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions. [1]
North America was slowly pulled westward away from the rift zone. The thick continental crust that made up the new east coast collapsed into a series of down-dropped fault blocks that roughly parallel today's coastline. At first, the hot, faulted edge of the continent was high and buoyant relative to the new ocean basin.
The percentage of Black Americans who live in the South has been increasing since 1990, and the biggest gains have been in the region's large urban areas, according to census data. The Black population of metro Atlanta more than doubled between 1990 and 2020, surpassing 2 million in the most recent census.
Americans across more than a dozen states had numerous priorities ahead of Election Day. But the economy and its impact on their wallets dominated all other concerns.
Hawaii is the only state in the union in which Asian Americans outnumber white American residents. People from many countries in Asia settled in California and other coastal states in several waves of immigration since the 19th century, contributing to the Gold rush , the building of the transcontinental railroad, agriculture, and more recently ...
Image credits: No-Falcon-4996 According to Dr. Doss, there are many factors that shape each and every culture. “Contemporary American culture, or the culture of the United States, is shaped by ...
Americans against the City: Anti-urbanism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2014) Douglass, Harlan Paul. 1000 city churches: Phases of adaptation to urban environment (1926) online free. Friss, Evan. The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s (University of Chicago Press, 2015). x, 267 pp.