The charts below show the Urban Population as a percentage of the total population by U.S. region and state according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
This rose in every U.S. state, territory and region from 2000 to 2010 except: Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Michigan, and Maine.
Especially in the Western U.S., urbanizations percentages are often much higher than crude measures of population density like people per square mile of land in the state would suggest.
Suck it, rural voters in Colorado.
ReplyDeleteAnd, the rural population of Colorado would be a lot smaller if it weren't heavily subsidized with very high per capita public expenditures for education and health care relative to what is provided, with postal system and telephone access subsidies, with property tax breaks, with a system that charges them far less than urban dwellers for water and gives them higher priority access to water, with road subsidies, with crop subsidies, with loan guarantees, with regulatory exemptions, etc.
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