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Old 02-11-2014, 10:36 AM
 
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North Dakota Leads Population Growth Again | Newgeography.com

New population estimates released. South & West continue to lead in growth.
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Old 02-11-2014, 01:14 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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North Dakota Leads Population Growth Again | Newgeography.com

New population estimates released. South & West continue to lead in growth.
That's because they have jobs and a very low unemployment rate.
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Old 02-11-2014, 01:20 PM
 
Location: New York NY
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It's the oil.
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Old 02-11-2014, 01:35 PM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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North Dakota Leads Population Growth Again | Newgeography.com

New population estimates released. South & West continue to lead in growth.
Percentages don't tell the entire story. It's easy to grow at a rapid pace when you start with less than 700,000 as your base population.

Let's put this in perspective. I split my time between two counties (MiamiDade, FL and Wake, NC). Both have more people than the entire state of North Dakota and both added more people to their counties in just the first two years of the decade than the entire state of ND has in three years since the last Census.
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Old 02-11-2014, 01:35 PM
 
Location: Jonesboro
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That was new news at the very end of 2012, or six weeks ago.
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Old 02-11-2014, 02:01 PM
 
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Their population only went up by 50,000 people. The percentage doesn't seem that impressive when you realize how small their population was to begin with and how much population they were losing for years before that.
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Old 02-11-2014, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Calera, AL
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What's also telling is how much slower the US is growing as a whole, North Dakota's growth rate is absolutely nothing compared to Nevada, Arizona, Utah, NC and the like in the 90s and the first half of the 00s.
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