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AP Was There: Census 2000 gets warm welcome in snowy Alaska

| January 21, 2020 2:05 PM

America’s decennial census begins Tuesday in rural Alaska, as it has out of tradition and necessity since the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867.

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