Is it really though?
Population determinations are pretty accurate these days and they don't generally use mail to determine it. It's electronic these days. And likely use cell tower data usage to help determine these numbers.
They use the same population protocol for everywhere so if they see a trend downwards, it's likely to be accurate.
The poop count in Williston is down.
https://www.willistonherald.com/news/census-shows-small-population-drop-from-to-in-williston/article_6f51fd68-10f8-11e7-91ea-7ff9e2319986.html
We are entering year 5 of the predicted 15.
Just 10 more years.
Going to need Williston to quite losing people though like they have been the last couple of years if it's still going to pass Fargo.
Watford City could become the size of Minot in 15 years by having a total population of 40,000.
But if that happens Minot will probably be at 90,000+ in 15 years, as Minot was adding more people every year than Watford City during the boom.
Good teams get first downs on 3 plays. Thus don't need to go for it as much as UND (SDSU only had to go for it 6 times on the year).
Half those 4th downs are when UND has no choice but to go for it down 8 with 2 minutes left.
Highly flying EWU is 8 of 21 on the year.
Full time on campus students from the United States is what 7 to 8,000?
I dont see the large foreign population of flight students voting as their education is usually already paid for by the airlines.