Since redistricting is right around the corner after the 2000 census and the state legislatures and governor control redrawing the district lines, the battle for party control in these states is particularly important in 1998.

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But another way to explain what's happened to the flag is to look at what the census says about the changing religious demography of the Belfast City Local Government District.

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The area's population nearly doubled in the two decades ending in 2010, according to Census data, and the area welcomed the biggest percentage increase in population growth of any district in the greater city as a whole.

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The Census Bureau reports that there are about 600, 000 people in Alabama's Seventh Congressional District.

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In fact, the 1st District of South Carolina is only 21% rural, according to U.S. Census statistics published in the Almanac of American Politics.

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