Wonder what's causing this? Happenstance? Coincidence? Regardless, these seem like minuscule amounts of people leaving, or am I mistaken in believing that? Link: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...e-lead-nation-population-loss-maricopa-county
I think with Chicago it's somewhat of a coincidence, or at least Chicago isn't dead or hasn't been dying a slow death since 1960.
3 large cold weather cities have a lot of people leaving. Lets look at population change weighted by population before looking too hard for that sweet sweet social commentary.
He quoted that Cook County only lost 20,000 some thousand out of 5.2 million and said it seemed minuscule. I think you are getting carried away.
I must not be expressing myself. Divide the loss by the total. The loss in Chicago is nothing compared to many places in the midwest (has been in the past, haven't looked lately). As a whole, Americans are moving to the coasts and to warmer climates. Part of this is that America is getting older.
I get that 20,000 out of 5.2 million isn't the same as 20,000 out of Knoxville. I think it was pretty self-evident in post 1.
If it is clear that Chicago shrank by 00.4% while cities in the Midwest and interior south are shrinking at more than 1%, okay. So why isn't pine bluff, AR in the OP? Shrunk 6% from 2010 to 2015.
