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'Hipsters' not filling out Census forms

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April 12, 2010, 8:44 am by Eric Zimmermann

For all the talk of conservatives boycotting the census, there are other demographic groups slow to return their forms.

NPR notes that the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn has the lowest rate of return in New York City. Williamsburg is the home of many a "hipster."

The return rate in New York City is only around 50 percent, the publica radio station reported, but the lowest rate of return is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where only about 30 percent of residents are returning their forms. Apparently Williamsburg's plethora of young, recent graduates with ironic mustaches and plaid shirts are apparently too busy tweeting to fill out a simple census form.


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