Check the stats and you find that the fastest growing states are the low tax states.Even in Communist New England,New Hampshire (no income tax...no sales tax) is growing by leaps and bounds while the rest of the region is going down in flames.
Those places are what the theatre/arts/sportswriters here crowd here call “backwards”.
They say without all the “investments” in stadiums, theatres and light rail, we’d be “a cold Omaha”.
Fargo is looking better all the time.