Sentences with phrase «black populations like»

«However, other states with comparatively large black populations like California and Texas kept the national gap from closing more than it did.

Not exact matches

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

Deerborn just happens to be the one thats 90 % Muslim since the White Flight when white populations and even black populations left when Muslims moved on in and started taking things over... like history repeating itself in many other areas of the world by the way.

The district, though majority Latino, boasts a large and higher - turnout black population that helped elect Mr. Stevenson and could propel someone like Mr. Benjamin, who is also black, into office again.

Or tricks borrowed from de-extinction could inject genetic diversity into dwindling populations, like those of black - footed ferrets on the Great Plains.

Rising awareness about black carbon Half of the world's population — roughly 3 billion people — cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass material like wood and animal dung, over open fires or rudimentary stoves, according to U.S. EPA.

Still, a disaster that kills a quarter of the population, like the Black Plague in Europe, would hardly register as a blip in fossil records.

Objects like this are thought to make up the «ultraluminous X-ray source,» or ULX, population, but recently one ULX was found to be a dead star called a pulsar, not a black hole.

The population of black people in Scotland has grown in recent years, mainly due to immigration from sub-Saharan Africa.Cities such as Edinburgh and Aberdeen have seen a surge in the number of immigrants from countries like Nigeria.

On the less sympathetic side are people like Dixon (Sam Rockwell), a patrol cop with a bad reputation for his harsh treatment of the black population in town.

Though Tacoma had only about 7,000 blacks — out of a total population of about 160,000 — our minority housing, like that in many cities, was concentrated in one area and served by schools then in violation of our state's de facto segregation rule.

No Child Left Behind required states to «disaggregate» assessment results to illuminate how disadvantaged or vulnerable populations — like black and Hispanic students and children from poor families — were doing.

Most research around teacher diversity has focused on specific populations such as black men or Hispanic teachers or has looked at areas like Texas, California with long traditions of immigration.

It's believed that some of the new warmer - water predators like black sea bass are threatening lobster populations.

Just like the internal combustion engine (the «Black Swan» in the 1890s) was already hiding in the wings, so is the expected sharp slowdown in future population growth there today (today's «Black Swan»).

«For the most part, the dancing manias [after the dreadful miseries of the Black Death,] present more of the characteristics which we associate with epidemic infectious diseases of the nervous system.They seem, rather, like mass hysterias brought on by terror and despair, in populations oppressed, famished and wretched to a degree almost unimaginable today.»

On plagues and climate, let's remember that the unclimate like cold of Europe was driving folks inside, furthering the spread of the Black Plague, and that the return to warmer climates (particularly on the north Med), lead to the flowering of technology (along with a lot of great plants Columbus brought back), aided by a reduction of population pressure.

It unfolded in different ways and under different pretenses depending on the town, but in general the Great Retreat looked like this: Some incident sparked racial tensions, and then white residents rioted, burned blacks people's houses to the ground, and chased established populations of their neighbors away with deadly violence.