This article is crap. When the evidence does not fit your theory you don't complain about the evidence: Stupid American don't want to move to the rust belt and

This article is crap. When the evidence does not fit your theory you don't complain about the evidence: Stupid American don't want to move to the rust belt and get rich! Perhaps ideology is getting in the way of thinking. What about cost of living, actual job opening, baby boomers retiring, skills mismatches, cultural preferences, etc. BTW-Internal migration has actually been studied for more than a century. This recent paper from the Fed has a good survey: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.25.3.173 http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.25.3.173