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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
The South and the West are the growth winners. The midwest and Northeast regions are stagnant, low growth. Are there some winners in those regions? Yes, of course, as there should be. I don't think anybody expects to see an across the board decline.
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Percent change in income per capita or gdp per capita will show us which places are winning. Iraq runs circles around the United States in population growth but in no way is Iraq winning anything. Population is not an indicator of success.
And as a reminder, those slow growth parts of the country were #1 in population growth at one point in their history. Things change, who knows what population patterns will be a few decades from now. We had our lowest rate of population growth on record in California last year, and it might very well be heading negative soon looking at the tends. A complete turnaround from just a few decades ago.