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forbes.com - 11/4/2009
Blue State Exodus
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For the past decade a large coterie of pundits, prognosticators and their media camp followers have insisted that growth in America would be concentrated in places hip and cool, largely the bluish regions of the country. Since the onset of the recession, which has hit many once-thriving Sun Belt ...

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Winds of Change.NET — ... It appears that actual evidence suggests the reverse - a "skybox exodus" that is hollowing out the middle class, and pushing city growth away from the "hip". ...

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Newmark's Door — Joel Kotkin, Forbes 11/3: Net migration, both before and after the Great Recession, according to analysis by the Praxis Strategy Group, has continued to be strongest to the predominately red states of the South and Intermountain West. This seems true even for those seeking high-end jobs. Between 2006 and 2008, the metropolitan areas that enjoyed the fastest percentage shift toward educated and professional workers and industries included nominally "unhip" places like Indianapolis, Charlotte, N.C., Memphis, Tenn., Salt Lake ...