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Washington, easily. It has the largest population. It has a major port, in Seattle...and in Tacoma, too. It receives a lot of transplants and a lot of immigrants. It is now firmly entrenched as a tech-savvy state and job market and, of course, has the final assembly plants for our domestically manufactured airplanes. I had to pause and think if it was Colorado, though I don't think so. Colorado has more sunshine than the major population centers in Western Washington. As for beauty, it's a toss...with Washington's coastal and Cascade ranges having a different kind of beauty than Rocky Mountain crossed Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
The last one is clearly Wyoming. Less people live in that state than do in either Portland or Seattle.
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If the vote was on metro areas, Seattle would definitely be #3, but in terms of the state as a whole, it isn't the #2 state in the west. I feel that goes to Colorado. It has a much more balanced economy, better climate, and lower cost of living.
If the vote was on metro areas, Seattle would definitely be #3, but in terms of the state as a whole, it isn't the #2 state in the west. I feel that goes to Colorado. It has a much more balanced economy, better climate, and lower cost of living.
Colorado is probably at least as much of a midwestern state as it is a western one. In fact, I'd say that it is actually more midwestern than western because the majority of the population lives in the midwestern "part" of the state.
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Colorado is probably at least as much of a midwestern state as it is a western one. In fact, I'd say that it is actually more midwestern than western because the majority of the population lives in the midwestern "part" of the state.
I wonder how many Coloradans would scoff at that notion. In spite of the sparsely populated praries in the eastern chunk of the state, quintesential Colorado and Denver don't strike me as Midwestern in image or reputation. Even Denver's roots started out with the mining industry, more of a Western association.
Colorado is probably at least as much of a midwestern state as it is a western one. In fact, I'd say that it is actually more midwestern than western because the majority of the population lives in the midwestern "part" of the state.
I've heard that claim. A lot of Midwesterners choose Denver because it's a "long one-day" drive from home. It can't be disputed that the western 2/3 are "western" in topography, industries, and what not, but the eastern 1/3, especially after leaving Denver on I-70, really feels like the Midwest. In fact, many folks in Denver joke that DIA, which replaced Stapleton, is in Kansas.
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