America's Future: Where Growth Will Be Over The Next Decade (2013, moving)

[jimmykem]

A Map Of America's Future: Where Growth Will Be Over The Next Decade - Forbes

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...


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Inland West
The Inland West extends from the foothills of the Rockies to the coastal ranges that shelter the Pacific Coast...
Capital City: Denver
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 8.8% / 2013-2023 - 14.6%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $1.3 / 2023 - $1.8
Total Population: 2013 - 32.3 Mil / 2023 - 34.6 Mil

The Left Coast
The Northeast may still see itself as the nation’s intellectual and cultural center, but it is steadily losing that title to the Left Coast...
Capital City: San Francisco
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 5.3% / 2013-2023 - 12.2%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $1.1 / 2023 - $1.5
Total Population: 2013 - 18.9 Mil / 2023 - 19.9 Mil

City-State
Los Angeles
Once called “an island on the land,” southern California remains distinct from everywhere else in the country...
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 3.1% / 2013-2023 - 10.9%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $1.0 / 2023 - $1.3
Total Population: 2013 - 20.9 Mil / 2023 - 21.9 Mil

The Great Plains
The vast region from Texas to Montana has often been written off as “flyover country”...
Capital City: Dallas
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 10.3% / 2013-2023 - 13.8%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $1.8 / 2023 - $2.5
Total Population: 2013 - 40.7 Mil / 2023 - 43.1 Mil

The Third Coast
Once a sleepy, semitropical backwater, the Third Coast, which stretches along the Gulf of Mexico from south Texas to western Florida, has come out of the recession stronger than virtually any other region...
Capital City: Houston
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 9.8% / 2013-2023 - 15.5%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $.85 / 2023 - $1.2
Total Population: 2013 - 16.6 Mil / 2023 - 17.8 Mil

The Great Lakes
The nation’s industrial heartland hemorrhaged roughly a million manufacturing jobs over the past 10 years, making it the only one of our seven nations to lose jobs overall during that period...
Capital City: Chicago
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - (-1.7)% / 2013-2023 - 8.0%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $2.6 / 2023 - $3.2
Total Population: 2013 - 58.3 Mil / 2023 - 58.9 Mil

The Great Northeast
The Northeast–which excludes the city-state of New York–has been the country’s brain center since before the American Revolution...
Capital City: Washington, D.C.
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 3.1% / 2013-2023 - 10.3%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $2.2 / 2023 - $2.8
Total Population: 2013 - 41.6 Mil / 2023 - 42.7 Mil

City-State
New York City
The Big Apple’s much heralded comeback has assured its place as one of the world’s great global cities...
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 5.3% / 2013-2023 - 8.6%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $1.3 / 2023 - $1.6
Total Population: 2013 - 19.2 Mil / 2023 - 19.7 Mil

The Southeast Manufacturing Belt
At the time of the Civil War the southeastern United States was both outpeopled and outmanufactured...
Capital City: Atlanta
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 4.1% / 2013-2023 - 10.7%
GDP (Trillions): 2013 - $2.4 / 2023 - $3.1
Total Population: 2013 - 61.2 Mil / 2023 - 64.3 Mil

City-State
Miami
Greater Miami often seems more the capital of Latin America than it does an American region...
Job Growth: 2003-2013 - 3.9% / 2013-2023 - 9.8%
GDP (Billions): 2013 - $260 / 2023 - $340
Total Population: 2013 - 5.8 Mil / 2023 - 6.1 Mil

[Boston Shudra]

Boston in NYC's bubble!?!

I don't think so. This map is a sham.

[jimmykem]

Originally Posted by iAMtheVVALRUS

Boston in NYC's bubble!?!

I don't think so. This map is a sham.

Did you read and study this article/map carefully? In the context of this article, Boston is not part of NYC; Boston falls under "The Great Northeast." Notice the color schemes? The NYC bubble only visually covers an extended area because, well, it's a large bubble.

[cpg35223]

I read this earlier and am glad you posted it. It's a good thought excercise. However, I tend to look very askance at these forward-looking articles. After all, who would have been able to predict the huge impact of fracking ten years ago?

[jimmykem]

Originally Posted by cpg35223

I read this earlier and am glad you posted it. It's a good thought excercise. However, I tend to look very askance at these forward-looking articles. After all, who would have been able to predict the huge impact of fracking ten years ago?

I don't disagree. Especially since it's coming from two sources I'm usually skeptical about - Joel Kotkin and Forbes. I figure I present the study anyway for people to discuss and debate as they will.

[rnc2mbfl]

Wow, growth projections only by major regions and over generalized bullet points....now that's useful.

[kyle19125]

From the same publication that pegged Tampa-St Pete as the 4th fastest growing metro this year then excluded it from continued growth over the next decade...?????

No. 4: Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. - In Photos: The Cities Where Americans Are Moving Now - Forbes

[dollaztx]

Originally Posted by rnc2mbfl

Wow, growth projections only by major regions and over generalized bullet points....now that's useful.

Even worse, those city-states don't let you compare the regions because they're excluded from the regions in which they're in.