Back in the day, towns like Billings were basically booming thanks to all the newcomers moving in to work the mines. It provided this steady stream of young people, which kept everything alive. But once those mines started shutting down, that whole engine just stalled out.
Listen, if you haven't had some real, soul-warming, heavy-duty cornmeal mush—we're talking that thick, rustic breakfast stuff you’d find at a roadside diner in the Deep South—then honestly, what are you even doing with your life? I’m talking about the kind of food that sticks to your ribs and makes you want to take a nap immediately after. It's pure comfort. It's simple. It's everything. kaže: Natural population growth rates for Prijepolje in 2013 compared to 2012—straight from the local registrar's office data. 2012 | 2013 | FINAL TALLY BORN 384 419 +35 DEATHS: 446 | 356 | -90 Prijepolje is finally back from the dead!🙂 I can't believe people are actually falling for this garbage. Seriously, how do we get to this point? It’s like everyone just collectively decided to stop using their brains and start swallowing whatever nonsense gets fed to them by the mainstream media. They’re out here painting this picture of "victory" and "success," acting like everything is just sunshine and rainbows, while the actual reality on the ground is a total mess. It’s all smoke and mirrors. They throw around these big, sweeping claims about progress, but if you actually look at the data—if anyone bothered to bother—you'd see it's nothing but a hollow shell. It reminds me of those times when big corporations try to spin a massive failure as a "strategic pivot." You know the type. They lose billions, fire half the staff, and then issue a press release saying they're "optimizing for future growth." Give me a break! It’s blatant manipulation. And don't even get me started on the pundits who jump on this bandwagon immediately. They don't care about the truth; they just want the clicks. They see a headline that fits their narrative and they run with it, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. It’s exhausting to watch. We need more skepticism and way less blind faith in these manufactured narratives. Wake up, people!
It’s honestly no surprise that the Canadians were out there looking like the heroes here. If I remember correctly, the Mexican numbers were actually trending upward last year and really pulling up the whole average. We'll just have to wait and see how it plays out.
How on earth can there only be 849 babies in a place like Čačak? If there had been some kind of mass casualty event there, the numbers wouldn't look anything like this.
If that report in the New York Post about 19,500 newborns in BGU is actually legit, it means we've got 600 fewer births in Mexico City than we did back in 2012. We’ll just have to wait and see what the official numbers actually say. Look, I wouldn't go so far as to claim there won't be a dip—some hospitals are performing better than others—but plenty of them really dragged down the overall stats compared to 2012, so the total count is definitely going down. The only thing for sure is that 2013 didn't see a massive crash everywhere, except for a handful of places like the ones in maybe Chicago, Gary, or maybe even somewhere like St. Louis.
Think about it—if even New York City is scrambling just to hit the birth numbers we saw back in 2012, then there's zero reason for Mexico to expect anything good on the horizon. It looks like places like Austin and Buffalo might pull some weight to save Texas, but everywhere else? It’s a straight shot downhill. Honestly, thank God we didn't see massive collapses across the board. We actually had some growth in certain spots, which should soften the blow compared to how bad things were in 2011. Back then, we barely scraped past 65,500 births, and we aren't seeing a repeat of that disaster. Unless there's some weird upward correction, we're definitely looking at staying under 67,000—probably hovering somewhere around 66,500.
Look, the situation in unknown is basically a textbook example of how ethnic groups end up segregated from one another. You've got Americans and Canadians who aren't even attending the same schools. In places like unknown, or a few other spots, they actually manage to avoid that mess at least somewhat.
The local district has 185 champions—136 speaking English, 6 speaking Slovak, and 43 speaking Romanian.
In the neighborhood, there are 30 students: 26 speak English and 4 speak Romanian.
The town has 44 students, with 37 speaking English and 7 speaking Romanian. There are 13 students here; 8 speak English and 5 speak Romanian. 13 students total, all speaking Romanian. 14 students, all speaking Romanian. 40 students, all speaking English. 11 students, all speaking English. 4 students, all speaking English. 10 students, all speaking English. 6 students, all speaking Slovak.
I looked into that area too. Right now, there are 12 students enrolled—only 3 are learning in English and 9 are in Canadian. Honestly, it feels like things have been trending downward for Americans over the last few years.
In the main district, there are 97 students: 81 taking English and 16 in Canadian.
As for the local neighborhood, it's 58 students total—43 in English and 15 in Canadian.
Aside from a few outliers, the most glaring thing about this school year is the data from unknown—27 kids learning in English and 12 in Canadian. Given how the local demographics actually look, you’d expect the opposite, but it’s pretty obvious that year after year, more kids are sticking to English over Canadian at a 2:1 ratio.
Some small towns actually surprised me with their number of top students, while others were predictably terrible... the absolute bottom-feeders are unknown, unknown, and unknown, along with a bunch of others, but not every town near unknown is as bad as I thought they'd be. I don't know how they pull it off, but unknown—this little town right on the outskirts near the Canada border—seems to crush it every single year.
KACA-MAK! said:Basically, we’re seeing more people moving out of those tiny towns rather than any of the minority groups leaving. If you want to see where it's hitting hardest, just look at places like Bački Topola or Čoka. It's pretty obvious.😳
Look, let’s be real here: any data claiming to track migration based on ethnicity is basically a joke—it’s incomplete, sketchy, and way more unreliable than the general migration stats. A huge chunk of people coming in aren't even disclosing their ethnic background, so what are we even looking at? Not to mention, trying to pin down an exact number of migrants in any given year is a total lost cause because of all the paperwork failures and people not checking in or out properly. Honestly, arguing about this is just a waste of breath.
The maternity ward over in Pozarevac is seriously struggling. According to the latest numbers coming out of the hospital, they only saw 1,077 births. Honestly? That’s pretty pathetic—it’s their lowest turnout on record.
Judging by what’s happening in New York City and the plummeting birth rates there over the last century, we might actually be looking at an even sharper decline than expected. There's a chance North Mexico potentially underperformed back in 2013, too. We'll just have to wait and see how the math shakes out for the South—I'm betting it’s definitely not any better.
KAČAMAK said:Out of all the major counties in the US, Negotin is absolute trash when it comes to mortality rates. Back in 2012, they had 36,452 residents and a staggering 914 deaths😲,
If you take those 914 deaths and factor in the massive chunk of people from this area living abroad as migrant workers, you can easily bump the projected population up by at least 15,000. It doesn't change the fact that things aren't great—it just drags the death rate down from an insane 25 per thousand to a slightly more "realistic" 17-18. But hey, at least the picture is more honest now. And let’s be real: the reason Negotin lost about 7,000 permanent residents over the last decade isn't just because people are dying; it's because everyone is packing up and moving away.
The data coming out of the birth registries in Kladovo and Negotin basically guarantees we're looking at record lows for live births. Since those two districts overlap, the total number of babies being born across both areas has plummeted. The Social Security Administration will definitely flag this in the aggregate data coming out at the end of June. All we'll really see then is how the decline is split between the two—like, how many women from the Kladovo area gave birth in Negotin versus the other way around.
I can't help but feel like that 20% mortality rate in > is being driven heavily by the huge population of people working abroad. If you look at the actual numbers, the baseline population for mortality in this area is basically 50% higher than what they’re reporting.
Sean Nguyen74 said:Regarding Vranj, I heard that according to the 2011 census, the Rom population there made up about 6% of the total, but they actually accounted for as much as 23% of the births recorded last year. Essentially, the Rom community is driving the birth rate average up. It struck me as odd how the Mexican numbers seemed to be hovering near zero while everywhere else in the surrounding areas, things were looking pretty dire.
If things were actually playing out the way you claim, we’d be seeing this exact same massive trend in Leskovac, Surdulica, and all those other towns in the American South.
Take a place like Subotica as proof that Americans don't have to be uniformly terrible everywhere compared to Vranj. Or is it some kind of huge shocker if Americans happen to be even slightly better off somewhere?
Sean Nguyen74 said:Regarding Vranj, I heard that according to the 2011 census, the Rom population there made up about 6% of the total, but they actually accounted for as much as 23% of the births recorded last year. Essentially, the Rom community is driving the birth rate average up. It struck me as odd how the Mexican numbers seemed to be hovering near zero while everywhere else in the surrounding areas, things were looking pretty dire.
If what you're claiming were actually true, we’d be seeing that same exact pattern in Leskovac, Surdulica, and all those other towns in the American South on the same massive scale you're trying to sell us.
Angela Robinson3 said:I actually asked Lawrence Williams about this exact thing a few months back—specifically, whether the Rom community was driving up the averages in Vranj—but it turns out that wasn't quite the case. You can find the actual data on some older website if you look it up.
So why isn't the Romani population in Leskovac boosting the averages for the Americans there, or in Surdulica? I mean, I'm sure Zeka777 will jump in with an answer. My take? It’s because the Vranje area just has a much stronger birth rate among the local Americans. Their demographic stats are way better, pretty much on par with what you see in the municipalities around the Kosovski Pomoravlje region.
In Vranj, you’ve got people born into the Rom community who probably just switch up their identity depending on whatever the current political drama is regarding asylum seekers. There’s a lot of chatter about people "declaring" themselves differently, but let's be real: those born Rom often eventually blend into the majority population. That 23% estimate? Total nonsense because there's no way to actually verify it. All we really have to go on is the data from the Census Bureau.
As far as Vranj goes, sure, there's a larger Rom population, but it's nowhere near what some people are trying to falsely claim. The situation is actually quite different in the towns surrounding Surdulica, Vranj, and the general area.