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Article: San Jose knows the way to top 10
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- Daily Breeze
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- July 1, 2005
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SAN JOSE -- Despite a sputtering economy and stinging inferiority
complex, Northern California's biggest town officially outranks
Detroit as the 10th largest city in the nation, the Census Bureau
reported Thursday.
The swelling of San Jose (population 904,522) and the shrinking of
Detroit (population 900,198) reflect a decades-long population boom
throughout the West, as well as the Rust Belt's battle to reverse an
exodus to better schools and lower crime in far-flung suburbs.
But officials in the self-declared "Capital of Silicon Valley" say
the local boom signifies more than demographics. They hope the Top 10
status transforms sprawling acres of office parks and residential