Sure, We're Still A Mobile People, But Not As Mobile As We Used To Be

Here’s the trouble with truisms: We often fail to notice when they become less true. A new report from the Census Bureau indicates one such case. We’ve heard all our lives that Americans are a uniquely mobile people, always ready to set off for new frontiers. It turns out, though, that this tendency has been abating for years. Between 2002 and 2003, 14 percent of U.S. residents moved to a new home—down from 20 percent in 1948, when the Census began collecting such data, and from 17 percent as recently as 1993-94.