Demographics

Milton Jordan

June 8, 2025

Bettina Corrales, our colleague 

in Sociology and Social Work,

scattered the printouts and fact sheets

from her developing dissertation

project analyzing Texas population

patterns from the seven census counts 

since the Second World War across two 

long tables in our crowded office,

seeking somehow to detail the changing

profile of our state’s typical citizen:

race and gender, age and birthplace,

employment and family status;

surprisingly, save for her employment 

outside the hourly-wage labor force,

Bettina fit the profile perfectly.

Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.