North Dakota fastest growing state in 2008

[Tender Branson]

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_state/2009/gsp0609.htm

[Associate Justice PiT]

     The interior West is performing surprisingly well.

[Joe Biden 2020]

It is very encouraging to see Oklahoma in the fifth quintile.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My hometown is already basically unrecognizable from when I lived there. You got densely populated neighborhoods that were wheatfields when I was in high school.

[Tender Branson]

My hometown is already basically unrecognizable from when I lived there. You got densely populated neighborhoods that were wheatfields when I was in high school.

It's not like ND actually grows really fast in population. It stagnated over the past 9 years.

Only 2 counties are somewhat growing: Cass and Burleigh.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My home county being the latter.

[justfollowingtheelections]

     The interior West is performing surprisingly well.

that's b/c there's nowhere to go but up for states that didn't already have a high GDP.  It's the same reason why developing countries always have higher growth rates than developed nations.  The other reason of course is that the collapse of certain industries didn't really affect states without urban centers.

[Lief 🗽]

WV is kind of surprising.

[Marokai Backbeat]

As usual, we suck.

[opebo]

WV is kind of surprising.

That map is all resource-bubble based.  Long since dead.

[King]

     The interior West is performing surprisingly well.

that's b/c there's nowhere to go but up for states that didn't already have a high GDP.  It's the same reason why developing countries always have higher growth rates than developed nations.  The other reason of course is that the collapse of certain industries didn't really affect states without urban centers.

I thought it was because developing nations couldn't afford contraceptives?

[Holmes]

I wonder why Alaska is so low? They're pretty well off, I would think.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I like how MInnesota and Washington both grew at the same rate, yet they're in the 5th quintile and we're in the 4th.  Sucks to be us, I guess.

[ilikeverin]

I like how MInnesota and Washington both grew at the same rate, yet they're in the 5th quintile and we're in the 4th.  Sucks to be us, I guess.

Texas is also +2.0 and in the 4th; rounding error of course.

[Vepres]

Go Colorado!

I'm surprised Arizona lost population considering they're supposed to gain 2 EVs in the coming reapportionment. Though it makes sense, I heard the housing crisis hit them hard.

[muon2]

Go Colorado!

I'm surprised Arizona lost population considering they're supposed to gain 2 EVs in the coming reapportionment. Though it makes sense, I heard the housing crisis hit them hard.

It's not population in the map, it's the change in GDP.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Go Colorado!

I'm surprised Arizona lost population considering they're supposed to gain 2 EVs in the coming reapportionment. Though it makes sense, I heard the housing crisis hit them hard.

It's not population in the map, it's the change in GDP.

     If it were population, I doubt North Dakota would be #1, or close to that.

[Sam Spade]

In a word, commodities.

[opebo]

In a word, commodities.

As I posted above a few days ago.

[pbrower2a]

In a word, commodities.

Demonstrating that we have been reverting toward an economy based upon farming, ranching, mining, and logging -- that we are de-industrializing and our shell game of finance and real-estate speculation isn't working as well as it did recently.