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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Massachusetts is also 4th in the country for states with the most people leaving to live elsewhere.

No doubt due to cost of living because Massachusetts is ridiculously expensive. The friends I have there are either leaving or totally resigned to not owning a house or ever retiring. Comparing a historically important coastal population center to a historically poor and strategically insignificant flyover state doesn't prove much.

The states with highest domestic emigration (e.g. people voting with their feet to leave) are overwhelmingly left leaning. (Except for Louisiana and Ohio)

[–] mkwt 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

strategically insignificant flyover state

Cushing, OK has a bone to pick with this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Assuming that is a missile silo or something in which case I stand corrected on that front!

[–] mkwt 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Major petroleum marketplace. The commodity trading floor is in a big city somewhere else. But a lot of the oil actually changes hands in our around Cushing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gotcha. FWIW I have no bone to pick with Oklahoma at all. If anything the fact that people criticize it for being a backwater probably means that it's awesome.

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