Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline(nature.com)
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Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57582-3
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Metro areas in the south still have higher fertility rates: https://www.statista.com/statistics/432838/us-metropolitan-a...
If it were just a matter of population density, not just metro area population, then low-density high-population metro areas, like those on the west coast, would still have high fertility rates, but they are lower than the high-density high-population metro areas on the east coast.
There seems to be a much stronger correlation to culture or general location than population density.
If it were just a matter of population density, not just metro area population, then low-density high-population metro areas, like those on the west coast, would still have high fertility rates, but they are lower than the high-density high-population metro areas on the east coast.
There seems to be a much stronger correlation to culture or general location than population density.
Rarely have I seen someone shoot down their own argument with a link quite as effectively as this.
You might want to google those cities, since every single one that I've checked is a small population city surrounded by rural area.
Your argument about cultural influence might be more persuasive if you compared larger cities.
You might want to google those cities, since every single one that I've checked is a small population city surrounded by rural area.
Your argument about cultural influence might be more persuasive if you compared larger cities.
Everyone likes to gatekeep what urban is, to the point that some only consider New York City or even just Long Island to be an urban area. The areas in the linked graph are all recognized as urban areas by the US Census Bureau, and whether you're in Odessa Texas, Provo Utah, Vancouver Washington, or Pasadena California, you're in a similar population density with similar services, except maybe that going to Salt Lake or Savannah airports only takes 45 minutes, instead of the one to two hours it takes to get to LAX from Pasadena.
I don't disbelieve the cultural influence myself but I'm pretty sure that urbanization matters.
I think the master narrative of human civilization is that almost all of us had ancestors working in subsistence agriculture a few generation ago who have moved or are moving into urban areas. This transition is largely complete in the US and Europe, happened explosively in China post-1980 and is about 2/3 complete there and is less far along in Africa and South America. Birth rates go down in this process.
I think the master narrative of human civilization is that almost all of us had ancestors working in subsistence agriculture a few generation ago who have moved or are moving into urban areas. This transition is largely complete in the US and Europe, happened explosively in China post-1980 and is about 2/3 complete there and is less far along in Africa and South America. Birth rates go down in this process.
Lefties need to lay off the pot and jump in the sack or the MAGAs will outbreed them.
https://www.pacificresearch.org/housing-costs-drove-the-majo...
not to mention the perception (if not reality) of an unsafe environment
https://ideas.repec.org/a/ebl/ecbull/eb-25-00236.html
and between leftists dogpiling in big cities where their votes don't count and those cities making it close to impossible to build housing that has to be a factor, together with individualism, anti-natalism, etc.