Sunday, March 24, 2013

Demographic Timebomb for the Upper Midwestern Lutherans -
Where Many Are Cold But Few Are Frozen

The cradle rock and roll is not going to change things.

bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Daniel 5:25 And this is the writing that was writt...":

The states that the ELS and WELS are big in (WI, MI, SD, ND) have aging populations compared to the rest of the US. The median age is closing in on 40 in many states:

http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/census-data-in-google-earth/

http://georgevanantwerp.com/2008/08/07/median-us-age-now-379/

Median age, by state
The median age -- half the population is older, half younger -- for each state on July 1, 2009:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/median-age-by-state.htm

Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota have a lot of empty nesters:

http://www.upworthy.com/the-map-that-shows-you-what-america-really-looks-like?c=ufb1

Skeptical baby is not impressed with the numbers from Ski and Glende.