The East Coast and Midwest are dying :wow:

[Voice of Reason]

In another 10 years people going to talk about the population booms in the Midwest

Because of climate change?

 

[1thouwow]

But is that a decline because of people leaving on their own or because of gentrification?

Before gentrification there were areas with low income housing with high population density, then once gentrified population density decreased.
Is that possible why?

 

[TheWiseWon]

I left Michigan for Nevada in 2020 and will likely never return.

The next stop is out of this country.

 

[mastermind]

The Rust Belt is dead. That's why Ohio went from purple to deep red over the past two decades and why Wisconsin and maybe Michigan will follow.

The brain drain is crazy. You pretty much have to move to make real money if you are a skilled worker.

Its not just that. Those are economically depressed areas and neither party offers a solution, so one party gives racism, guns and religion and the other says HYON.

 

[Booker Carver]

Born and raised in Missouri. Went to college in Missouri. Still live in Missouri. I don’t think it’s useless at all.

 

[Amo Husserl]

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[Gritsngravy]

the middle of the country is useless, so is much of the south but at least it's warm. wish we could scoop out everything west of philly to reno and from the canadian border to dallas and make a more compact country that's easier to travel

The Midwest and south is essential to food production, and energy

 

[Gritsngravy]

Because of climate change?

Climate change, too many people in a handful of states, and anything could happen Detroit Cleveland Milwaukee has potential to be world class cities if people invest into them

 

[Rayg1919]

I say black folk yall come on back down south. We need to start aggregatting anyway. Maybe we can take these southern states back politically.

 

[FaygoMI]

That map of Detroit doesn't tell the story. My family that swore they'd never leave the city moved 20 miles away to Oakland and Maccomb county. That's why those areas are green. Data needs to look at Metro areas and not cities.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I say black folk yall come on back down south. We need to start aggregatting anyway. Maybe we can take these southern states back politically.

Take them back? Even before the great migration and with 40-50% populations black people didnt run the south. black people never had these states and outside of all of us moving to just one state, we never will. That’s not how this system works

 

[OfTheCross]

Take them back? Even before the great migration and with 40-50% populations black people didnt run the south. black people never had these states and outside of all of us moving to just one state, we never will. That’s not how this system works

They couldn't vote then. Now Blacks can. It'd be different.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

They couldn't vote then. Now Blacks can. It'd be different.

Black people could vote in the 10’s-70’s when the great migration was taking place (when they still represented 30-50% of the population in many Southern states) , and they are still suppressing the vote and gerrymandering districts to invalidate the black vote to this day.

 

[OfTheCross]

Black people could vote in the 10’s-70’s when the great migration was taking place (when they still represented 30-50% of the population in many Southern states) , and they are still suppressing the vote and gerrymandering districts to invalidate the black vote to this day.

Don't pretend Black people had the same agency in the 1910s and em as they do now.

You're not going to get Medgar Evered in 2022 like that.

Back in the day that was an expected reaction from cacs in power

 

[No1]

the middle of the country is useless, so is much of the south but at least it's warm. wish we could scoop out everything west of philly to reno and from the canadian border to dallas and make a more compact country that's easier to travel

Don’t toss out the Chi. They’re not useless.