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by aaronharnly 4464 days ago
Interesting point.

The natural sex ratio at birth is estimated at 1.06, so that ratio of males to females for young Americans is not particularly out of expectation.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio

I couldn't readily find numbers, but I would speculate that there may also be more male than female immigrants at younger ages.