Monday, October 16, 2006

“Where the Brains Are…” - The Clustering of U.S. College Graduates

Richard Florida, the author of the book The Rise of the Creative Class, and the Hirst Professor for Public Policy at George Mason University writes:

”Today, a demographic realignment that may prove just as significant [as the pioneers westward, the rural South to Urban North, and city to suburb migration] is under way: the mass relocation of highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid Americans to a relatively small number of metropolitan regions, and a corresponding exodus of the traditional lower and middle classes from these same places.”

Read more on the “Means Migration”:

Where the Brains Are. [Richard Florida] PDF

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