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erican population as a whole is now 27 9. It is 26.8 throughout the State of Virginia.
FOR SOME years, in the local area and in most other parts of the country, the median age level had been moving downward. It was due principally to the high birth rates experienced after World War 11. The sharp increase in the number of young people had the effect of bringing the median age down.
More recently, however,
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