Posted on 09/04/2013 12:17:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The world’s biggest and most dynamic economy derives its strength and resilience from its geographic diversity. Economically, at least, America is not a single country. It is a collection of seven nations and three quasi-independent city-states, each with its own tastes, proclivities, resources and problems. These nations compete with one another–the Great Lakes loses factories to the Southeast, and talent flees the brutal winters and high taxes of the city-state New York for gentler climes–but, more important, they develop synergies, albeit unintentionally.
Wealth generated in the humid South or icy northern plains benefits the rest of the country; energy flows from the Dakotas and the Third Coast of Texas and Louisiana; and even as people leave the Northeast, the brightest American children continue to migrate to this great education mecca, as well as those of other nations.
The idea isn’t a new one–the author Joel Garreau first proposed a North America of “nine nations” 32 years ago–but it’s never been more relevant than it is today, as America’s semi-autonomous economic states continue to compete, cooperate … and thrive. Click on the thumbnail of our map to see our predictions for the job, population and GDP growth of these 10 regional blocks over the next decade, and read on below for more context.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
NNoooo, we can’t take anymore!
this is the ironic part....all these campus leftists burning their bras and their draft cards all managed to get into govt jobs, which the govt they railed against, and live wealthy ever after...
carry on....
That’s the plan.
Eventually some technological tweak will make large scale telecommuting a reality. When that happens, the population shift will be of epic proportions. Imagine living where you want to, regardless of occupation.
Kotkin is an illegal immigration fanatic who likes to popularize his nonsense by claiming it as economic growth
People in California are moving to Boise, Denver, SLC and Phoenix to ESCAPE the massive influx of Third Worlders turning California in to the nightmare outtake from Blade Runner
yes and by doing so they are screwing up all the other states. witness commierado
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