william the wie
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One of the other boards I post on had the annual United/Allied net migration data reports. There are also U-Haul and Ryder net migration reports. They correlate with each other to a high degree.so the same pattern emerges from all of them:
Net tax payers migrate out of Blue states and into Red states.
Net tax consumers migrate into Blue states and out of Red states.
Because of rising tuition costs and generally older infrastructure Blue states are also losing the technological hot spots and other economic attractors that keep them going at a compound interest rate. An example of this is that ND is THE hot spot for drone development because it has such low levels of air traffic. This has happened much more rapidly than Austin becoming the hotspot for computer games.
So, how fast is this shift compounding? That the blue wall is headed for disaster has been noted for decades. "The Sunbelt", "The Nine Nations of North America" and similar works have been around since at least the Nixon administration. Or if you want a more neutral measure the center of population map that can be found on Wikipedia with migration becoming more southern than western @ 1930. At what point will this change become acute and disastrous? Any reasoned arguments?
Net tax payers migrate out of Blue states and into Red states.
Net tax consumers migrate into Blue states and out of Red states.
Because of rising tuition costs and generally older infrastructure Blue states are also losing the technological hot spots and other economic attractors that keep them going at a compound interest rate. An example of this is that ND is THE hot spot for drone development because it has such low levels of air traffic. This has happened much more rapidly than Austin becoming the hotspot for computer games.
So, how fast is this shift compounding? That the blue wall is headed for disaster has been noted for decades. "The Sunbelt", "The Nine Nations of North America" and similar works have been around since at least the Nixon administration. Or if you want a more neutral measure the center of population map that can be found on Wikipedia with migration becoming more southern than western @ 1930. At what point will this change become acute and disastrous? Any reasoned arguments?