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Apparently, Nevada, Arizona, and, if you consider it as Sunbelt, Colorado near Texas and Florida in 2010-2015 population growth. Anyone know how the five states' growth rates have been doing on an annual basis? Perhaps one of those three have recently grown faster.
Sunbelt: Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and North Carolina
Arguably sunbelt: Utah, Colorado, California
Not sunbelt, but rivals: Oregon, Washington
How is California "arguably" sunbelt? Its like the King of sunbelt. Utah and Colorado I understand. North Carolina is less sunbelty than California, I consider it the northeastern edge of the belt.
Georgia is the big dog out of the list, though unlike NC its more limited to Atlanta. The other metro areas have less influence compared with NC's.
I think Alabama is the sleeping giant that has a lot of untapped potential. They got too much of a fundamentalist Christian thing, though, which limits the type of people who are likely to move there willingly.
I dunno why people are bringing up the politics of NC like its gonna cripple its growth. It has admitedly caused a reactionary wave from PC liberals but honestly, don't think it'll make a big difference. Texas is deep deep red and it don't matter one bit when it comes to growth, actually its part of the appeal for some. So many conservatives move from blue states because Texas politics and lifestyle is more agreeable to them. Same thing is probably happening in NC to a smaller scale. Also am I the only the LGBT person who does not GAF about stupid bathroom bills? If I hear someone refer to it as a "transgender protections" issue one more time, I'm gonna throw up. Trans people have far bigger things on their plate than the bathrooms they use.
How is California "arguably" sunbelt? Its like the King of sunbelt. Utah and Colorado I understand. North Carolina is less sunbelty than California, I consider it the northeastern edge of the belt.
NC and GA, because of Atlanta and NC's multiple major cities. Hopefully they don't go down FL's path and allow themselves to be raped over by northerners and developers.
True but California set the standard for Sunbelt-style development; it just so happens to have the geography that favors a denser form of sprawl compared to Sunbelt cities of the South.
I dunno why people are bringing up the politics of NC like its gonna cripple its growth. It has admitedly caused a reactionary wave from PC liberals but honestly, don't think it'll make a big difference. Texas is deep deep red and it don't matter one bit when it comes to growth, actually its part of the appeal for some. So many conservatives move from blue states because Texas politics and lifestyle is more agreeable to them. Same thing is probably happening in NC to a smaller scale. Also am I the only the LGBT person who does not GAF about stupid bathroom bills? If I hear someone refer to it as a "transgender protections" issue one more time, I'm gonna throw up. Trans people have far bigger things on their plate than the bathrooms they use.
The difference is that Texas hasn't (as of time of post) passed an anti-rights bill to the level of the bill North Carolina had. Furthermore, a lot of Texas's growth is self-made (which eliminates the dependence on attracting companies from other areas), and the cities, which are large relative to NC's, still exert enough of a pull to attract companies (regardless of state affairs).
The difference is that Texas hasn't (as of time of post) passed an anti-rights bill to the level of the bill North Carolina had. Furthermore, a lot of Texas's growth is self-made (which eliminates the dependence on attracting companies from other areas), and the cities, which are large relative to NC's, still exert enough of a pull to attract companies (regardless of state affairs).
I'm not sure on the amount but all of the energy companies that used to be in Nola are now in Houston, except for Entergy. So not all of that is self made.
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