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Healthy StateUpdated -- August 12, 2003 A recent survey compared the health of residents in different states of the
Inferences: The northern and/or cold weather States are generally great -- provided no heavy industrialization -- while the Midwestern States (the bread basket of Another more specific version of variations in healthy states has been to compare how states rank in terms of cancer risk. WebMD Medical News' Jennifer Warner has reported on the American Cancer Society's measure of how states fare under the following six criteria:
California was the only state with six out of six, while Alabama and Kentucky scored only one of six. Most other states scored somewhere in between. And yet, according to Netscape in its article on State Migrations, people are moving out of California and New York "in droves". Both are down nearly a million people in the last ten years, while Illinois, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania also lost more residents than they gained. All of these states are in lower two thirds of healthy states, which might therefore make some sense. Except of course for the fact that South Carolina is seeing some very notable gains in population, despite its rank as the 48th healthiest state. Go figure. Meanwhile, the basic migration is toward the "Sun Belt" -- which now comprises 13 states and accounts for 20% of the population and 79% of the total growth of the nation's white population. These include: Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, Utah, Delaware, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. "Sun belt?" Oregon? Netscape <http://netscape5.marketwatch.com/news/story> has also reported on people's perception of the most desirable states. In 2003, these included (in order): California, Florida, Hawaii, Colorado, New York, Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Montana, Georgia, and Alaska. In other words, people who do not live in these states and suffer through the problems associated with each state, still seem to think they must be nice places to live. This perception varies each year. For example, the most noteworthy change was to raise Texas from 14th most desirable to 7th. Meanwhile, most native born Texans assume that Texas has always been number one, and that it is only the newcomers who do not fully appreciate this fact. BTW, it's impolite to ask someone where they're from. If they're from Texas, they will eventually tell you in the course of the conversation. If they're not from Texas, you don't want to embarrass them.
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