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Re:The Silicon Valley-ization of San Francisco by falsestprophet on Friday December 20, 2013 @08:05PM (#6945205)
Empirically, in some places in India proportionally fewer females are delivered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion#India

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Re:The Silicon Valley-ization of San Francisco by seanmcdirmid on Friday December 20, 2013 @09:15PM (#6945389)
That is just birth rate. In Alaska, everyone in these oil towns are migrants, and most are men. The migrant situation is more analogous to what is going on in SV then what is going on in India (people in SV aren't having sex-selection abortions!).
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