Posted Jan 19, 2012, 6:53 PM
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Provincial Bumpkin
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 13,203
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Funny in a way that the devastated Sun Belt cities - Phoenix, Las Vegas - are still growing near the top of the pack. Maybe we rushed our pronunciations of their doom a bit.
Denver is still on pace to pass a few more cities by decade's end. Good and bad there, I suppose. By 2020 we'll be firmly top-20.
Colorado will probably pass Minnesota, and maybe Wisconsin too, by the next census.
Pain continues for the Rust Belt. If these numbers are even close, it seems the Great Recession has had less lasting effect on growth patterns than a lot of us thought.
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