Not a lot of green in blue states.


http://www.howmoneywalks.com/irs-tax-migration/

This begs further explanation

http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/riche...ll-cities/

Like how a few are profiting from the many, often using taxes and gov't favoritism. Oh, and those profits head toward blue states. Imagine that.

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.

(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.

When the I77 corridor from Chicago gets finished through NC it will link both Southport and Wilmington ports up to the rest of the country. It should create a boom in our area. This is the kind of "shovel ready" projects I support.