Wait a minute. Your article first indicates a 15.6 percent rise in the U.S. population between 1990 and 2002 but then goes on to claim an increase at “faster rates” in coastal counties: 13.3 percent.
Richard Laatsch Oxford, Ohio
The 13.3 percent rise in population is only for the 330 counties that touch the coastline.
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