Latest metro league tables from Joel Kotkin who is getting a good rep in this. Results are as one has come to expect: 9 of top 10 are red metros. #10 is silicon valley. The top 6 red metros include four of the most diverse (least white) in the nation (Hou, DFW, Austin, SA) oh, and three of them are among the six highest real income per capita too. The top 6 blue metros include three of the whitest in the nation (Msp, Seattle, Portland) and the two Federal heavens (DC and Baltimore). I guess blue works best if you keep the Feds in or the darkies out. Which is what that nasty right wing public choice theory would predict.
7 of the 10 fastest dying are blue metros, with only 1 from a truly red state, Memphis which for better or worse at 46% is the blackest major metro area both racially and politically in the nation which means mega blue in practice. By contrast, Nashville, still very black but red run, is number 5 best in the nation.
But look at the details, what's amazing is the differential rates of rot. Blue metros sure seem to be bleeding a lot of red. Which is why we need strong national laws to impose blue 'standards' on red areas so we can all rot together! It's all so progressive. Rest here.
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