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What's your intention behind this?

• freehunter 6y ago
  One good intention might be to expose everyone to more diverse ideas. People from the cities get exposed to a more rural or fly-over life and people from the center of the country get exposed to people and ideas from the bigger cities. There's a huge gap between the cities and the rest of the country, and that gap is just growing wider. It's been the source of a lot of political discomfort, and that's not going to go away if we keep up this economic and political segregation. Another good intention might be to spur economic activity in areas where the local economy is in decline or completely gone. There's a lot of money and wealth and opportunities created in cities that only trickles back down to the rest of the country very indirectly (through government subsidies paid for by taxes, for example). Imagine if even half of West Virginia University's engineering graduates stayed local and built their fortunes in Morgantown (or Charleston) instead of moving to San Fransisco to work for Google or Facebook. Their tax revenues staying local would be huge for a lot of people who are suffering in abject poverty in WV right now.
  • lizknope 6y ago
    You can sort these tables by percent change or absolute numbers of people and sort positive or negative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories... West Virginia is estimated to have lost 3.3% of its population over the last 9 years. Only a few territories are worse. I've driven through many times and it is a beautiful state. I have a friend working on opioid legal cases and there are so many documents about cities wanting to keep their young people in the state but there aren't enough economic opportunities so people leave or turn to drugs.