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Natural resources are big drivers to any state,country or regions success. Nothing listed in this entire post is unique and specifically something given to Texas to support the state
Texas is 2nd to California in active duty military members. Military Active-Duty Personnel, Civilians by State It's safe to say that Texas benefits a lot from the military - probably 3rd behind Washington DC area/Northern Virginia and California.
I didn't say it was the most dependent, but it is definitely dependent. Take away that government spending and oil money and it becomes a more populous New Mexico. Why this is annoying is because Texas politicians like to pretend that they are completely independent, when they most certainly are not.
People say this country is divided. According to actual statistics the divide may be between those who choose to remain poor, uninformed and uneducated....and unhealthy...and those who do not.
Such a gap cannot be bridged by lofty rhetoric.
What excuse can rich states like Texas have for falling near the bottom of the pack?
You would think that measureable facts might matter.
Notice there is not a single warm weather state on that list until you get to #23, California.
Exactly - you cannot just uniformly declare entire states good or bad.
The same can be said of just about any geographic location. Austin and Denver, the top two cities in the Huffington Post list, also have their bad areas in addition to good areas. Judging "good" and "bad" states is no different that judging "good" and "bad" cities. Or countries for that matter.
One of the so called newscasters with one of the biggest networks said last week, 'It is our job to tell the public how to think.' Those top state lists, follow the same principal.
No it isn't. A hot climate is hotter than a cold climate. Opinion has no place here.
Some people like it hot and some like it cold. That's where the opinion enters. Usually the cold was where people went after they were defeated by other people who wanted to be where it was warm.
There are a lot of old people in cold climates, true. NY is becoming an elephant graveyard of sorts. Snowbirds are entering extreme old age and many come back to NY to die because their grandkids are here.
Some states are good for making a living, some are good to retire to, some are good or at least convenient, for immigrants. Most states are good for the people born in them because moving out would cause to much disruption.
There is an old saying, figures do not lie, but liars figure. Ranking the states,. depends on who is doing the ranking and their goal.
Here are two different rankings. One rank has a state as #1, but the other one has it at 30th place. It all depends on who is doing the figuring.
That's why the definitive "ranking" is actual population shift since it is the aggregate result of all people weighing all factors, and measures what they do not what they say.
That's why the definitive "ranking" is actual population shift since it is the aggregate result of all people weighing all factors, and measures what they do not what they say.
In simple migration numbers, there may well be more examples of people "moving down" than of people "moving up".
There have been many articles in the past decade in our local news papers, discussing various aspects of inter-state migration.
Young adults [18 to 30] leave Maine seeking higher wages and career opportunity. While older adults [50 to 70] migrate to Maine seeking the low COL and lifestyle. These two migration patterns tend to balance out, to keep our overall population nearly steady.
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