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The fact that the South recorded both the largest numerical population increase and the fastest rate of growth, along with the fact that, for the first time ever, there is a higher percentage of unmarried couples than married couples leading our nation's 111.1 million households [50.3 vs. 49.7], says a lot about the sweeping demographic changes that many marketers are not keeping up with.

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