Where Did All the Midwesterners Go? One Place: Texas
11th February 2012
In just two years – 2007 to 2009 — the Midwest lost nearly 200,000 people. Where did many of them go? Turns out it’s Texas.
That’s what our Changing Gears public media project found out. Over the past few weeks, our Public Insight journalists Sarah Alvarez and Meg Cramer have been looking at Midwest Migration. They’ve collected hundreds of stories of people who left the industrial Midwest for other places.
I can vouch for that.
February 11th, 2012 at 09:11
When they ran out of jobs up north, they moved south.
When they run out of water down south, they’ll be back.
February 11th, 2012 at 22:52
Tim, ever on the leading edge of societal evolution.