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Originally Posted by TheseGoTo11
Good data in your post, but the gap widens if you look at state-level, not metro-level data. AZ was up 20% 2000-2006, Georgia just 14%. NC just 10%.
Part of it is a slightly bigger base, but the SW doesn't have declining or flat rural areas like the SE. Atlanta and Charlotte are growing rapidly, but Macon and Goldsboro aren't. Also, 80% of AZ lives in the Phoenix or Tucson metro area, and almost 90% of NV lives in the Vegas or Reno areas.
With its older industrial and rural towns too insignificant to pull down its growth rate, SW is likely to continue to increase pop. at a faster rate than the SE.
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Numbers always make for convincing arguments, but let's look deeper into them. While I have no source (currently) to back me up I would imagine the vast majority of this growth in AZ and NV are either people fleeing the great beast of LA or they are immigrants. I'd say most of the growth in the SE is from all over the nation, not just an adjacent hell-hole (Ok, maybe Im being too extreme
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I think the South's small rural towns give it a depth and culture not seen in much of the Southwest. Those that see past the moronic hollywood stereotypes of the South will see that its not such a bad place. The Southeast is second only to the Northeast in terms of importance, and that includes D.C. being in the NE
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