(05-02-2014 06:31 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  To me ... some interesting patterns you see when you drill down to the state level as to where money is going:

1) Interstate "corridors" in red states, excluding counties that are heavily urban.

I-85 from NE Atlanta into NE Georgia into Upstate, SC into Charlotte suburbs/exurbs into the Triangle.
I-35 from San Antonio to Waco to DFW suburbs and exurbs.
I-40 from Greensboro to Winston-Salem to Asheville to Knoxville to Nashville suburbs
I-26 from Johnson City to Asheville to Greenville-Spartanburg to West Columbia to Charleston


2) Border counties adjoining California. All western counties in Arizona and Nevada. Most southern counties in Oregon.



Southern Appalachia is such a well kept secret. Eastern TN, Western NC, Upstate SC, Northeast GA. Nearly all counties in there are green. I-40, I-26, and I-85 are the veins of industry in the deep south. There also seems to be some transition in port traffic. Even Long Beach/LA lost a lot of wealth despite being the top cargo port in the US. Just about every county with a major port in the Gulf or Southern Atlantic -- even if saddled with the burden of a large urban area -- is green. Wilmington, Morehead, Charleston, Georgetown, Savannah, Brunswick, Tampa, Jacksonville, Everglades, Miami-Dade, Canaveral, Palm Beach, Manatee, Panama City, Mobile, Pascagoula, Vicksburg, Greenville, Biloxi, Gulfport, Houston, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Texas City, Freeport, Port Arthur, Point Comfort, Galveston, Brownsville, Victoria .... and I think every single one except Miami-Dade, Biloxi, Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, and Gulfport are green.