The article asserts - "So where have people been moving to...Generally to southern Sun Belt states" If you compute absolute population growth from 1969 to 2011

The article asserts - "So where have people been moving to...Generally to southern Sun Belt states" If you compute absolute population growth from 1969 to 2011 on a per-county basis, using publicly available demographic stats, the top-20 winners are ---- Arizona Mohave 7.38100563286945 Georgia Paulding 7.4570788900017675 Virginia Loudoun 7.954704312171496 Georgia Henry 8.023498694516972 Texas Hood 8.128975265017667 Florida Collier 8.313786154239164 Texas Denton 8.504770344932634 Georgia Fayette 8.909350004596856 Texas Montgomery 9.526487258446021 Utah Washington 10.029741513547181 Florida Hernando 10.384018414995067 Georgia Forsyth 10.637015231025215 Florida Osceola 10.880533448053345 Texas Rockwall 10.907133440749963 Georgia Gwinnett 11.063892016788289 Texas Fort Bend 11.168507788849015 Texas Williamson 11.323119312014695 Colorado Summit 11.39344262295082 Texas Collin 11.507137247655564 Florida Flagler 21.135939986360537 Colorado Douglas 36.49576488706366 ------ So Douglas county in Colorado grew the fastest, 3600% growth! Indeed, it had a population of about 8000 folks in 1969 & now averages about 300000 => thats your 3600% Generally speaking, the South is a big winner - GA, TX, FL, AZ... 3139 counties ranked by population growth in my github repo here - http://bit.ly/16RsjWa http://bit.ly/16RsjWa Here's some Scala code for crunching this data yourself : http://bit.ly/1hZDQny http://bit.ly/1hZDQny