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Two Separate Realms.

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John Ellis
Oct 29, 2019
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1. The Upshot: "Just what are the suburbs anyway? In a statistical sense, they are surprisingly hard to define. The United States Census Bureau, the primary source of demographic data, doesn’t offer a lot of insight; it distinguishes only between urban and rural areas. So The New York Times decided to develop its own method for defining suburbia. From t…

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