OT: interesting graph on home state population
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Ie, states no one wants to move to
Only surprise in here for me was how low Nevada is.
Is it saying that 60-74% of the Mississippi population was born here, or that 60-74% of people born in Mississippi currently live here?
I'm thinking it means the former, judging by Nevada.
I'm thinking it means the former, judging by Nevada.
Exactly. And in our case at least states where many people don’t really have an option to move out of.
Yep, it reads a little confusing. 60-74% of the current population was born in that state. So it’s a bad metric to be high in, unless your state has some secret nobody knows about.
I have some in-laws who've only left Clay County Mississippi twice.
I was born in Alabama and my family moved (back) to Mississippi at age 3. Wait...
I’m going to butcher the details of this, but Jerome Goddard (MSU entomologist who was on Colbert once) told a story to my med school class. I think there was a bug that either was or sounded like it was from somewhere international, and he was asking this family that found it if they’d had any international travel, and they said, “We ain’t never left Wayne County!”. Then he discovered there was a local version of it.
Desoto Co. MS, and used to live in Memphis for about 5 years, and a little while in Millington, TN.
Everyone flocks to the coasts and Texas. Nashville’s influx bumps Tennessee up or it would probably be red too.
This graph really isn’t earth shattering.
This graph really isn’t earth shattering.
I was really puzzled by whether autocorrect got you or what there. Was not expecting an entomologist to talk to a med school class.
They flock to thriving cities. It isn’t TX so much as it is DFW and Austin.
This is why the anti-Jackson people are stupid.
And on TN, it ain’t just Nashville. It’s Chattanooga, Knoxville and even the Tri-Cities area. TN is on another level, it’s closer to GA and NC level than it is MS and AL.
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Our main professors covered the bulk of vector borne diseases, but they had him present to add color, more detail, etc
That's saying people living in their home state. Nothing else. Yall can sh it on anything. It says nothing about people not moving in, etc.
Your reading competition = lack of.
If this helps:
Scenario 1:
100 people are born in a state and all live to adulthood.
No one moves in.
No one moves out.
100% adults were born in state
Scenario 2:
100 people are born in a state and all live to adulthood.
No one moves in.
Half move out.
100% adults were born in state
Scenario 3:
100 people are born in a state and all live to adulthood.
100 move in.
No one moves out.
50% adults were born in state
Scenario 4:
100 people are born in a state and all live to adulthood.
50 move in.
50 move out.
50% adults were born in state
Wait, what?... it ABSOLUTELY is a reflection of no people moving into the state of MS. This map would look identical if it reported population living in states who were NOT born there.
I was born here and still live here. Maybe my thinking is in the minority, but this is my home and always will be. I'm quite comfortable and happy in the small town rural life that is slow paced. I'd much rather sit out on a back porch with a glass of lemonade overlooking a garden and yard full of trees with squirrels and other animals than in a big city with all the crowds and noise. I've done a decent amount of traveling. Been to over 30 states, Canada, and Ireland. I love visiting other areas but home is MS.
This is me... the map definitely is a reflection of nobody moving to MS, but I'm cool with that. Last week I spent 3 days in Columbus, OH and next week I've got to be in central FL. 17 the traffic and the crowds.
How is this a reflection that nobody moves to Mississippi? It's possible from this graph that 40 - 24% of the population was born outside the state. It is literally impossible for all residents to be only Mississippians as you have miltary bases, universities, corporate transfers and retirees with expatriate populations. Don't shat on the state if you don't have the full facts. Mississippi gets plenty of that noise already.
I think a lot of people would. But you have to work. Not everybody can make good money in a small town.
The graph states adults living in their birth state. Not percent of the population that were born here compared to the population. It states people still living in their birth state. Nothing else.
if you were born in Mississippi there is a 60- whatever percent that you stayed.
if you were born in Mississippi there is a 60- whatever percent that you stayed.
No, the graph shows the percentage of a state's adult population that was born in the state. It does not show you the percentage of all adults that were born in a particular state that stayed in that state.
See Zombie's post above.
1. Obviously, there's very few reasons for people to move to MS.
2. Mississippians are home bodies. I know several families where the husband would love to move, but the wife will not live very far from Momma an 'em.
2. Mississippians are home bodies. I know several families where the husband would love to move, but the wife will not live very far from Momma an 'em.
