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So seems like we can remove some of the logic that iterates through the counties and pulls each block group and simplify with inserting these wildcards instead.
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I note that Census has added wildcard support for block groups in the 5-year ACS starting with 2013-2017. I'm going to poke around at this as this would speed things up significantly for state-level block group pulls.
Reminded by this question, and it appears that block and block group wildcards now work to allow all blocks or block groups in a state:
https://api.census.gov/data/2000/dec/sf1?get=P001001,NAME&for=block:*&in=state:50&in=county:*&in=tract:*
https://api.census.gov/data/2010/dec/sf1?get=P001001,NAME&for=block%20group:*&in=state:50&in=county:*&in=tract:*
So seems like we can remove some of the logic that iterates through the counties and pulls each block group and simplify with inserting these wildcards instead.
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