Talk:Demographic history of the United States

message: The article used to say:
"As a typical colonial foundation, British North American provinces often developed cities relatively early in their histories."
Well, Egypt developed cities pretty early in its history, too.  Some Native American civilizations also had huge cities.  I'm not sure the implied claim is either factual or neutral. -- Beland 00:58, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of old intro

message: This article seems to be mainly citing rural/urban demographics from a particular source, in support of the concept of "rural exodus".  Instead of selecting certain states to support a point, this article should contain across-the-board statistics, which should be obtainable from the US Census.
To live up to the promises of its title, this article should be expanded to cover more than just rural/urban issues, even though that's an interesting starting place. -- Beland 01:05, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV, balance and comprehensiveness

message: This article lends the assumption that ALL African Americans date their arrival to the Colonial Period.That couldn't be further from the truth. There has been immigration from Africa over time, and - even more important - significant immigration from the Carribean. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) (talk) 13:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: AFRICAN AND CARRIBEAN IMMIGRATION TO THE USA

message: There is no discussion and almost no data at all of the period between 1850 and 1940.  Gohome00 (talk) 16:25, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing data

message: The article supplies extremely different population numbers for these dates. Difficult to believe that European population 3 years after Jamestown was settled was 3800. In fact later it is given as 400.
Neither set of statistics defines the population base used - though apparently Native Americans are excluded at first.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.66.139.197 (talk) 00:30, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  1610 & 1620 + lack of definition of population figures 

message: There is almost no data on Native Americans, the article is very eurocentric.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.106.183.2 (talk) 04:14, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:CITE and WP:VERIFY, same as all other information added to articles. And, yes, I did leave an explanation in the edit summary. Get your facts straight.If you can cite it, re-add it. Heiro 09:17, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I did not understand the abbreviated hints. Much of the information can be found in Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States, which is referred to in the section "See also". A direct source is Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990..., I am going to add it. -- Kuhni74 (talk) 14:30, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  No data on Native Americans 

message: The box is longer than any fish. Could anyone please make it into two boxes, one for 1610~1780 and the other for 1790~2010? :P I don't know how ...
Also, should we include some projections, up to ~2100? I saw some figures on the Chinese page of this, but I'm not sure about its reference.
SzMithrandir (talk) 19:43, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  {Historical Population} box too long 

message: This section needs the footnotes to be put properly under the table, instead of being right in the middle of the article. 108.254.160.23 (talk) 17:53, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've had a go at this. There were also some obscurities in this section that I have either removed or tried to clarify. It looked previously as if it might have been cut and pasted from some other work. Thomas Peardew (talk) 17:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population in 1790 

message: Many sections (Immigration up until Natural Growth, for example) have no references. If any of the original content creators are out there, please either add your sources to the article or put links here, at the very least.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cubesheep (talk • contribs) 01:24, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: I came to this article looking for facts about the southern states that had black majorities in the years leading up to the Civil War — notably, South Carolina, the first state to secede. The enslaved majority in several of the slave states was an important fact of life. IIRC all the black-majority states seceded, while the slave states that remained in the Union (Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri) had both white majorities and relatively large free black populations. I'm disappointed to find that this article is still silent about all this. — ℜob C. alias ALAROB 16:01, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  19th century "black majority" states 

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