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California Population Boom Driven by Midwest Migration
California's 1940 census showed 10,490,070 residents, a 51.9 percent rise from 1930. Los Angeles County reached 4,125,146, with Compton and Burbank as fastest growing suburbs. The influx mainly came from Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Missouri, while native Californians grew rarer and a young, mobile generation expanded the state’s communities.
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Raymond Street
United States
Ireland
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Fort Scott
Kas
Anthony
Ace Rige Alamosa
Cole
Miner
Brennan
Dan Norrell
Hattiesburg
Miss
Daytona Beach
Fla
Florida
Ernest Campbells
Alabama
Arkansas
Leucia Feleppa
Maureen Kelly
Belfast
Long Beach
Feleppa
Italy
Colleen
Pervis Erwin
Louise McHaiffey
Jonesboro
Ark
Mrs. Erwin
Erwin
Steve
Joe McCormicks
Joplin
Woodville
Tex
Boyd W. Conard
Fredonia
Gressley
Phillips
Myers
Lincoln
Willard L. Deming Jr
Minneapolis
Danny Fortmann
Danny
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