Prediction: Sunny Side Up

New calculations make California, Texas and Florida winners

The next millennium is not so far off: a child born this year will still be a child, just a teenager, in the year 2000. And judging by the U.S. Census Bureau's newest calculations, that turn-of-the-century teen-ager more likely than not will be a sun-drenched type who goes around chirping, "Fer shure, y'all."

Last week the Census Bureau released its highly educated guesses about the demographic shape of the country at the turn of the century and predicted that a solid majority of the 267,461,600 resident Americans...