North American Cultures BADM Intl.Biz Cultures

Recent Headlines Recent Headlines Inflation Virtually Flat Inflation Virtually Flat A key gauge of U.S. inflation has fallen to its lowest level since record-keeping began in 1957, underscoring the continued weakness in the economy. California Bond Woe Bodes Ill for States America's strapped states and cities took another hit Wednesday, with California seeing tepid demand for its latest bond sale and other governments pulling about $700 million worth of borrowing deals this week as investors continued stepping away from the municipal bond market. EU Plan for Ireland Takes Shape Seven weeks after Irish officials declared they had a handle on the country's banking crisis, an international panel is putting the country's financial sector under the microscope—and will find that things have gotten worse. European officials are pressing to recapitalize Ireland's wounded banks with money from an international bailout fund, indicating that the contours of an aid package to the country are taking shape even as Dublin insisted it didn't need help. Beijing Escalates Inflation Battle China said it is ready to clamp price controls on daily necessities to bring down inflation, dusting China said it is ready to clamp price controls on daily necessities to bring down inflation, dusting off a measure from socialist central planning in a new sign of alarm by Chinese leaders who have been striving to cool economic growth through more conventional means such as hiking interest rates. off a measure from socialist central planning in a new sign of alarm by Chinese leaders who have been striving to cool economic growth through more conventional means such as hiking interest rates. Train Makers Rail Against China’s Designs Chinese rail companies that learned their trade from the likes of Kawasaki and Siemens are now vying against their former partners in the burgeoning global market for super-fast train systems.

Emerging Wild Card: Inflation Price pressures in emerging markets could force central banks to tighten aggressively, roiling assets and currencies While many investors have been fixated on the European debt crisis, concerns have been quietly building about the potential for inflation problems in emerging markets. The fear isn't that emerging-market countries will return to the kind of hyper- inflation that was so damaging in the past. Rather, the worry is that high food and energy prices, combined with capacity con- straints and the Fed’s easing move in the U.S., will force emerging-market central banks to raise interest rates more aggressively than is currently expected. That's especially the case in some Asian countries, which are seen as having kept interest rates inappropriately high.

Population, Land Mass and GDP Population 1. 1.China1.3 B 2. 2.India1.2 B EU 501 MM 3. USA311 MM 4. Indonesia 238 MM 5. Brazil186 MM GDP EC $16.4 T EC $16.4 T 1. USA $14.1 T 2. Japan $ 5.1 T 3. PRC $ 5.0 T 4. Germany $ 3.3 T 5T Frnc/UK $ 2.7 T 8. California $ 1.8 T California 9. Brazil $ 1.6 T 10T. India/ Russia $ 1.2 T Russia $ 1.2 T WORLD $ 58 T Land Mass (sq. miles) 1. Russia 6.6 MM 2. Canada 3.9 MM 3T USA/China 3.7 MM 5. Brazil 3.0 MM

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States – Year of Admission to Union 1. 1.D ELAWARE F RIDAY, D ECEMBER 7, P ENNSYLVANIA W EDNESDAY, D ECEMBER 12, N EW J ERSEY T UESDAY, D ECEMBER 18, G EORGIA W EDNESDAY, J ANUARY 2, C ONNECTICUT W EDNESDAY, J ANUARY 9, M ASSACHUSETTS W EDNESDAY, F EBRUARY 6, M ARYLAND M ONDAY, A PRIL 28, S OUTH C AROLINA F RIDAY, M AY 23, N EW H AMPSHIRE S ATURDAY, J UNE 21, V IRGINIA W EDNESDAY, J UNE 25, N EW Y ORK S ATURDAY, J ULY 26, N ORTH C AROLINA S ATURDAY, N OVEMBER 21, R HODE I SLAND S ATURDAY, M AY 29, V ERMONT F RIDAY, M ARCH 4, K ENTUCKY F RIDAY, J UNE 1, T ENNESSEE W EDNESDAY, J UNE 1, O HIO T UESDAY, M ARCH 1, 1803* L OUISIANA T HURSDAY, A PRIL 30, I NDIANA W EDNESDAY, D ECEMBER 11, M ISSISSIPPI W EDNESDAY, D ECEMBER 10, I LLINOIS T HURSDAY, D ECEMBER 3, A LABAMA T UESDAY, D ECEMBER 14, M AINE W EDNESDAY, M ARCH 15, M ISSOURI F RIDAY, A UGUST 10, A RKANSAS W EDNESDAY, J UNE 15, M ICHIGAN T HURSDAY, J ANUARY 26, F LORIDA M ONDAY, M ARCH 3, T EXAS M ONDAY, D ECEMBER 29, I OWA M ONDAY, D ECEMBER 28, W ISCONSIN M ONDAY, M AY 29, C ALIFORNIA M ONDAY, S EPTEMBER 9, M INNESOTA T UESDAY, M AY 11, O REGON M ONDAY, F EBRUARY 14, K ANSAS T UESDAY, J ANUARY 29, W EST V IRGINIA S ATURDAY, J UNE 20, N EVADA M ONDAY, O CTOBER 31, N EBRASKA F RIDAY, M ARCH 1, C OLORADO T UESDAY, A UGUST 1, N ORTH D AKOTA S ATURDAY, N OVEMBER 2, S OUTH D AKOTA S ATURDAY, N OVEMBER 2, M ONTANA F RIDAY, N OVEMBER 8, W ASHINGTON M ONDAY, N OVEMBER 11, I DAHO T HURSDAY, J ULY 3, W YOMING T HURSDAY, J ULY 10, U TAH S ATURDAY, J ANUARY 4, O KLAHOMA S ATURDAY, N OVEMBER 16, N EW M EXICO S ATURDAY, J ANUARY 6, A RIZONA W EDNESDAY, F EBRUARY 14, A LASKA S ATURDAY, J ANUARY 3, H AWAII F RIDAY, A UGUST 21, 1959

Fifty States

Migration Patterns

Historical Countries of Origin (Immigrants)   Canada – English, Scottish, French & Chinese (BC)   NE & Eastern US – –English, some Welsh & French (Early) – –Irish, Southern and Central European ( ) – –European Jews (post Tsars and right before WWII)   Mid-Atlantic/South – English, Scots-Irish & Welsh   Lower Midwest – US, Southern and Western Europeans   Upper Midwest – US, West & Northern Europeans   Plains & Rocky Mountains – US and Many Europeans   Florida and Southwest – Hispanics and US (Yankees!)   Northwest – US and Chinese

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Predominant Religions

Racial and Ethnic Concentrations in the United States

Population Density

Population – States, DC & Possessions Rank State Population California: 36,132,147 # 1 California: 36,132,147 California # 2 Texas: 22,859,968 # 2 Texas: 22,859,968 Texas # 3 New York: 19,254,630 # 3 New York: 19,254,630 New YorkNew York # 4 Florida: 17,789,864 # 4 Florida: 17,789,864 Florida # 5 Illinois: 12,763,371 # 5 Illinois: 12,763,371 Illinois # 6 Pennsylvania: 12,429,616 # 6 Pennsylvania: 12,429,616 Pennsylvania # 7 Ohio: 11,464,042 # 7 Ohio: 11,464,042 Ohio # 8 Michigan: 10,120,860 # 8 Michigan: 10,120,860 Michigan # 9 Georgia: 9,072,576 # 9 Georgia: 9,072,576 Georgia # 10 New Jersey: 8,717,925 # 10 New Jersey: 8,717,925 New JerseyNew Jersey # 11 North Carolina: 8,683,242 # 11 North Carolina: 8,683,242 North CarolinaNorth Carolina # 12 Virginia: 7,567,465 # 12 Virginia: 7,567,465 Virginia # 13 Massachusetts: 6,398,743 # 13 Massachusetts: 6,398,743 Massachusetts # 14 Washington: 6,287,759 # 14 Washington: 6,287,759 Washington # 15 Indiana: 6,271,973 # 15 Indiana: 6,271,973 Indiana # 16 Tennessee: 5,962,959 # 16 Tennessee: 5,962,959 Tennessee # 17 Arizona: 5,939,292 # 17 Arizona: 5,939,292 Arizona # 18 Missouri: 5,800,310 # 18 Missouri: 5,800,310 Missouri # 19 Maryland: 5,600,388 # 19 Maryland: 5,600,388 Maryland # 20 Wisconsin: 5,536,201 # 20 Wisconsin: 5,536,201 Wisconsin # 21 Minnesota: 5,132,799 # 21 Minnesota: 5,132,799 Minnesota # 22 Colorado: 4,665,177 # 22 Colorado: 4,665,177 Colorado # 23 Alabama: 4,557,808 # 23 Alabama: 4,557,808 Alabama # 24 Louisiana: 4,523,628 # 24 Louisiana: 4,523,628 Louisiana # 25 South Carolina: 4,255,083 # 25 South Carolina: 4,255,083 South CarolinaSouth Carolina # 26 Kentucky: 4,173,405 # 26 Kentucky: 4,173,405 Kentucky # 27 Puerto Rico: 3,912,054 # 27 Puerto Rico: 3,912,054 Rank State Population # 28 Oregon: 3,641,056 Oregon # 29 Oklahoma: 3,547,884 Oklahoma # 30 Connecticut: 3,510,297 Connecticut # 32 Mississippi:2,921,088 Mississippi # 33 Arkansas: 2,779,154 Arkansas # 34 Kansas: 2,744,687 Kansas # 35 Utah: 2,469,585 Utah # 36 Nevada: 2,414,807 Nevada # 37 New Mexico: 1,928,384 New Mexico # 38 West Virginia: 1,816,856 West Virginia # 39 Nebraska: 1,758,787 Nebraska # 40 Idaho: 1,429,096 Idaho # 41 Maine: 1,321,505 Maine # 42 New Hampshire: 1,309,940 New Hampshire # 43 Hawaii: 1,275,194 Hawaii # 44 Rhode Island: 1,076,189 Rhode Island # 45 Montana: 935,670 Montana # 46 Delaware: 843,524 Delaware # 47 South Dakota: 775,933 South Dakota # 48 Alaska: 663,661 Alaska # 49 North Dakota: 636,677 North Dakota # 50 Vermont: 623,050 Vermont # 51 District of Columbia: 550,521 # 52 Wyoming: 509,294 Wyoming # 53 Guam: 168,564 # 54 US Virgin Islands: 108,708 # 55 Northern Mariana Islands: 80,362 # 56 American Samoa: 57,881 Total: 300,737,973 Total: 300,737,973

T HE C HANGING D ISTRIBUTION OF THE O VER -65 P OPULATION IN THE USA

Per Capita Income Wealthiest 1.Connecticut – $28,766 1T (Dist of Columbia – $28,659) 3.New Jersey – $27,006 4.Massachusetts – $25,952 5.Maryland – $25,614 6.Colorado – $24,049 7.Virginia – $23,975 8.New Hampshire – $23,844 9.New York – $23, Delaware – $23, Minnesota – $23,198 Least Wealthy Least Wealthy 41.Kentucky – $18, Idaho – $17, North Dakota – $17, Oklahoma – $17, South Dakota – $17, New Mexico – $17, Montana – $17, Louisiana – $16, Arkansas – $16, West Virginia – $16, Mississippi – $15,853

Health Healthiest 1.Vermont 2.Hawaii 3.New Hampshire 4.Minnesota 5.Utah Unhealthiest 50. Louisiana 49. Mississippi 48. South Carolina 47. Tennessee 46. Texas.

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