And they're crew camps, not man camps
Finally
This really is quite impressive: three of the top ten fastest growing micro-cities in the nation are in western North Dakota.
Link to Dickinson Press here.
Williston is the fastest-growing micro area in the country, and Dickinson and Minot also made the top 10, according to estimates released Thursday by the Census Bureau.Dickinson, #4, with four percent increase in growth.
The population of the Williston micro area — which is Williams County — grew 8.8 percent from April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2011, Census estimates show.
Minot, #8, with 3.6 percent increase in growth.
The ranking, as impressive as it is, is distorted by a huge margin.
The Census does not count people who live in crew camps or other temporary housing.I wish I could use similar reasoning/math when figuring my federal taxes.
This takes me back to something from my school days, the "three-fifths compromise."
The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. It was proposed by delegates James Wilson and Roger Sherman. -- from Wiki.As someone said, it's not how many noses there are, but how the noses are counted.
Oh, wow, note this: I almost missed it the first time. Debbie Downer now refers to "man-camps" as "crew camps." I agree. We should have been calling them crew camps all along, just like we call extended pickups, crew cabs. I wonder if calling them "crew camps" will make them more palatable among those who fear "places where a bunch of men live together."
