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These eight US states have shrunk in 2016
MercatorNet ^ | Jan 16, 2017 | Shannon Roberts

Posted on 01/16/2017 11:55:05 AM PST by fwdude

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To: fwdude

But Mississippi was a surprise in the list.
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This is white flight.


41 posted on 01/16/2017 1:05:16 PM PST by ckilmer (q e)
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To: fwdude

But Mississippi was a surprise in the list.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/how-white-flight-ruined-the-mississippi-delta/384227/

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/27/us/cleveland-mississippi-sidebar-segregation-academies/


42 posted on 01/16/2017 1:07:55 PM PST by ckilmer (q e)
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To: 9YearLurker

Now, the state senate is tied, so maybe the Republicans in CT can tell Dannell Malloy to go F himself. Its time for the CT GOP to fight for the citizens and make it more business friendly.


43 posted on 01/16/2017 1:10:00 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: fwdude

It these states have shrunk, how much more have they shrunk if you ignore the illegals and moslems that have come in to these states?


44 posted on 01/16/2017 1:11:52 PM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: dangus

my sister in law is from wyoming. she says people leave wyoming because they just think there’s more opportunities elsewhere and well life if more interesting elsewhere..

too many jets flying over on cloudless nights I guess.


45 posted on 01/16/2017 1:12:07 PM PST by ckilmer (q e)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Doesn’t Pennsylvania have a number of declining old industrial cities, which have been bleeding population for decades? Is their decline still part of that trend?


46 posted on 01/16/2017 1:17:48 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: fwdude

If you take out the illegal population, I bet CA is another.


47 posted on 01/16/2017 1:28:33 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: ConservaTeen

The thermometer may have something to do with folks leaving Wyoming. It is a Right to Work State and has no State income tax. Good business climate. Great for retirees. Except of course, the winters....


48 posted on 01/16/2017 1:51:12 PM PST by donozark (Gerard Depardieu wears DEPENDS. Not because he has to, but because he wants to.)
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To: dangus

The energy sector in general is very cyclical, so I wasn’t surprised to see Wyoming on the list.


49 posted on 01/16/2017 1:51:17 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Read Write Repeat

You are jumping to conclusions. I’m talking about backwards incentives in our society. I am not justifying abortion like you think. Single moms would be eligible or entitled to a host of benefits that would be comparable to the net income of a $50,000+ job. Or she can work and/or get married, and she/they pay taxes.

And since two parents are better than one, the government is encouraging what is worse for children under the rationale that they are helping.


50 posted on 01/16/2017 2:18:48 PM PST by BJ1
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To: BlueDragon

Thanks for the best BOL of the day, from your racist, misogynist, fascist deplorable.

Or, are you one of those racist, misogynist fascist who simply don’t CAIR about peoples suffering (woe, the suffering! the intense & painful suffering!)?

Thought so. How deplorable of you.


51 posted on 01/16/2017 2:37:00 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The deadliest Islamic terror cell America has ever faced is leaving office, 20 Jan 2017!)
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To: ckilmer

Devils Tower is in Wyoming. Maybe they are leaving the state because they want to avoid encounters with aliens (not the illegal immigrant type).


52 posted on 01/16/2017 3:24:34 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Jim from C-Town

The increased age for children to remain on their parents’ policies is not the gift/freebie you’d think; it is actually a way to get younger people paying into the insurance pools (the same way the ObamaCare mandate attempted to do with penalties). When these younger people are insured through the parents’ plans, SOMEONE (the parent, employer, most likely some kind of split) is paying the premiums to have them insured.

This is just another gimmick (though voluntary) to herd younger, healthier people into insurance pools to spread the costs of the older, sicker people.


53 posted on 01/16/2017 3:26:37 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: b4me

You pose a good question. Here in Canada, our internal growth is well under replacement rate, yet our population grows every year.

Easy to explain when we allow 600,000 people to immigrate here every year (that would be like the US allowing in 6 million)

After you deduct the Syrian Islamofascists and the Jamaican gang bangers, how many quality immigrants are we getting?


54 posted on 01/16/2017 3:27:06 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Texas Fossil

NJ is the same; we are a “sanctuary state” that has lost 350K white people (read: Americans) over the last decade. If we enforced immigration laws (and we should), we’d have not just a lot of vacant housing, but a lot of empty schools as well. The political arm of the teachers’ unions (the Democratic Party) is working overtime to prevent that from happening.


55 posted on 01/16/2017 3:28:40 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Maybe they moved to Idaho.

You know, to get more potatoes.


56 posted on 01/16/2017 4:05:30 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: fwdude

It was a very poor headline. My old high school English teacher would have given them an F!

Like when the mediots say, “We have shorter days after Day Savings Time is over.”

The days are still 24 hours long. We have less daylight hours not shorter days.

Those states are the same geographical size. Their populations shrunk.


57 posted on 01/16/2017 4:22:00 PM PST by Grampa Dave (HoThe deadliest Islamic terror cell America has ever faced is leaving office, 20 Jan 2017!)
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To: BJ1

Yeah, tell that to one of the Iraq soldier widows about how she’s being ‘incentivized ‘ to be a single parent after her husband was killed.

It’s never a black and white issue. You’re talking about welfare reform while I’m talking about how expensive it is to deliver a baby in the hospital versus abortion.


58 posted on 01/16/2017 5:21:19 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: kearnyirish2

The mandate alone requires insurance coverage. Allowing adults the age of 26 to stay on their mommy and daddy’s insurance is making men and women children. There is no reason why an employer or a parent should be on the hook for providing insurance coverage to an adult child.


59 posted on 01/16/2017 7:07:40 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Kansas has a crappy economy too. Surprised it’s not on the list.


60 posted on 01/16/2017 7:16:58 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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