America's new 'dream cities': Which Cities Americans Are Moving to – and Escaping FromConservative Americans are moving to "well-churched" places in one state, while liberals are flocking elsewhere. ....
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Shaping Our Nation, Barone explains a new way Americans define an enduring urge: “to pursue dreams and escape nightmares.”
Today's nightmare cities, Barone says, are mostly familiar ones:
Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, and other former factory towns that no longer have enough jobs to support a shrinking population. The new dream cities tend to be ones in which low taxes and low housing costs are fostering population growth and prosperity: Houston, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Nashville, Atlanta and several “mini Atlantas” including Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham and Jacksonville..."