His description of the city of Czernowitz and its diverse population is moving, especially in light of what became of that diversity.
In this picture, the state's population is moving ever outward, and while its cities are finally stanching losses, they have been overtaken by burgeoning, sprawling suburban townships like Woodbridge and Edison.
The large turnout of Iraqi Sunnis is an encouraging sign for the political process, but the assumption that the Sunni population is moving away from the insurgency may prove false.
The novelty of Crace's undone America is that the population is moving eastward, reversing the westward migrations of earlier centuries, in a desperate attempt to "emigrate" to Europe, though no one seems to know anything about this promised land.
Much of the new population is moving into the east end of town, where two major housing developments have risen on land that was once peach and apple orchards.
Williamsburg, the epicenter of Brooklyn's gentrification, where a growing white population is moving into neighborhoods dominated by Hispanics, would seem to have the most favorable conditions in the city for integration.
In addition, they say, employers have another reason for holding on to the workers they have even if the economy slows: the baby-boom population is moving into its 50's, and far fewer younger workers are coming up behind them.
They agree that church representatives in Poland have lost authority and credibility, and that much of the population is moving toward a more secular view of life, one with a greater separation between church and state, and a rejection of church mandates on individual morality.
The young and affluent population is moving away from fresh, unprocessed produce, towards packaged food that is less-time consuming and more convenient.
If a significant portion of the population is moving away from consumerism, are they more likely to spend money in other ways, or will they increase their savings?
