Suck it, California & New York. Us lowbrow rednecks in the heart of flyover country with a governor being lampooned on cable news shows and in the ‘papers of record’ and home to President Bush must be doing something right. According to ABC News and Forbes, the top five metropolitan areas for jobs are in Texas. The number one small city for jobs is also in Texas:
The top of the complete ranking — which, for ease, we have broken down into the two smaller lists, of the best big and small cities for jobs — is dominated by one state: Texas. The Lone Star State may have lost a powerful advocate in Washington, but it’s home to a remarkable eight of the top 20 cities on our list — including No. 1-ranked Odessa, a small city in the state’s northwestern region. Further, the top five large metropolitan areas for job growth — Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Ft. Worth and Dallas–are all in Texas’ “urban triangle.”
I guess a state with a weak governor, low taxes, a diversified economy and reasonable regulation on home mortgages is doing something right, eh?
Democratic states are glaringly absent from the top of the list.
Indeed.