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The simple fact is it’s easier to live with humidity than snow. Air conditioning is better at offsetting the ills of summer than heaters are with winter. What’s more, heat almost all of the country, with simply duration and peak varying. Snow/winter doesn’t affect large swaths of the country. It’s easier to avoid than heat.
If it was, the South should’ve been the most populated region from the inception of the country. There were other mitigating factors, but when it came to weather, the cold was easier. And there is zero tangible difference between how heat makes winter more tolerable versus air conditioning making summer more tolerable. I’m not sure how you could quantify such a difference.
Union owned Illinois is losing 100k net domestic while neighboring right-to-work Indiana and Wisconsin are basically flat. And really concerned about AB5, passed by our completely union controlled state legislature and governor, which could hit LA really hard.
You’re claiming a correlation, and haven’t proven it. Unions can go too far, but there was a time when most Americans were supportive of unions and proud to have them around. We certainly didn’t have the same massive wealth inequality and tens of millions of working poor when they were more widespread. The destruction of unions was to the sole benefit of corporate interests. Illinois has problems, but they are a lot more complicated than “unions bad!”
If it was, the South should’ve been the most populated region from the inception of the country. There were other mitigating factors, but when it came to weather, the cold was easier. And there is zero tangible difference between how heat makes winter more tolerable versus air conditioning making summer more tolerable. I’m not sure how you could quantify such a difference.
Air conditioning wasn’t around at the inception of the country. The South was also limited in other ways (capital, industry, infrastructure). Disease was also problematic in the the more humid parts of the South for long stretches of our history. The world changed. Winter weather is avoidable in ways never before imagined, helped along by the great sameness that is the American culture that post-war suburbanization has brought. Regional differences have disappeared in large measures.
I would caution at looking too deeply at year/year growth.
Rather than NYS actually losing 77k last year it’s more likely it never actually reaches its 2016 peak the estimates said it did.
I think the overall issue is that estimates have a history of being off, either way. So, it will be interesting to see what the official numbers are for 2020.
Did the Census Bureau release 2018-2019 numerical growth/charts for specific cities and/or counties? Or is it only for individual states?
I’m pretty sure they use the same estimate base from 2010 for every year and calculate out from there so I’d trust the general trend from 2010 more than year to year
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