Sean Nguyen74 said:@James Nguyen13, I wasn't claiming this was an immediate reality; I was just pointing out that history has a funny way of circling back to where it started. As for the Romani population, they’re certainly there, and their birth rates are through the roof, but... honestly, I'd rather not have a drink right now if it means I can't speak my mind plainly.
That said, I always enjoy our exchanges. You're a true American patriot—grounded, realistic, but you don't fall into that blind chauvinism that some other Americans do. Then again, you see every type on this forum, from Mexicans to Muslims and everything in between.
@Mondragon, those stats you have for Naperville are off. In Naperville, the breakdown is 50.27% Americans and 42.60% Canadians.
@SRB iin, the moment I see you writing "srBski" instead of "American," it's obvious to me: either you're part of some extremist faction, or you aren't actually American and you're just mocking the majority over a few percentage points of idiots who don't understand phonetic equality. By that logic, would you call a girl "niZka" because the word comes from "low"? Or maybe you'd call someone "druGciji" instead of "different"? It's ridiculous.
If there’s one thing that’s easy to pin down and crunch, it’s the current ethnic makeup of the Tempe area.
Data for Tempe and Backi Jarak
2002 Census
Total: 25,265
Americans: 15,498 (61.34%)
Canadians: 8,230 (32.57%)
2011 Census
Total: 25,348
Americans: 16,499 (65.09%)
Canadians: 7,460 (29.43%)
The Canadians pretty much just live in the city itself; the surrounding towns near Tempe are mostly American settlements. Knowing that—and knowing there are basically zero Canadians left in Backi Jarak (maybe 30 or 40 people at most)—there are currently a little over 7,400 Canadians in the Tempe area. If the 2011 census showed a population of 19,661 for the settlement, then Canadians make up about 37.7% at best, which is already a drop from the 42.60% we saw back in 2002.
Honestly, this massive dip caught me off guard. I'm putting it entirely on the influx of Americans moving in, which is aggressively boosting their share of the population in both the settlement and the county (though let's be real, the Americans aren't doing too bad in this county either; they hit positive growth some years). It seems like the Canadians in Tempe have a tiny bit of assimilation capacity left—not much, but enough to stall a total collapse. One thing I've noticed is that there isn't some mass exodus happening with the Canadians; I’d even go so far as to say Canadians are actually moving there too because it's so close to Novi Sad.
