‘Voting with Feet’ Continues in Cuyahoga and Hamilton Counties
From the Associated Press last Thursday:
Cleveland, its close suburbs shrinking
3/22/2007, 5:38 p.m. EDT
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland and its Cuyahoga County suburbs have been losing population at a pace only exceeded by Detroit’s Wayne County and the Gulf Coast region devastated by hurricane Katrina in 2005.U.S. Census Bureau population estimates also show Cincinnati’s Hamilton County shrinking and Columbus and Franklin County growing slightly.
Cuyahoga’s population dropped 1.2 percent, from 1,330,428 to 1,314,241, between July 2005 and July 2006. Hamilton County’s dropped 0.7 percent, from 828,487 to 822,596.
It’s a dry, numbers-driven report, so let’s refresh: People vote with their feet and abandon where they live because of crime; high taxes; poor schools; and, in some cases, lack of open space. It would be nice to think that Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland, or Hamilton County and the City of Cincinnati, are doing something about these problems. Whatever they are doing, if anything, is not enough.
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Pingback by NixGuy.com » Americans Move — March 31, 2007 @ 3:09 pm
The only problem is that the movers take thier old voting patterns, that got them into the mess in the first place, with them.
Comment by Mark_McNally — March 31, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
#2, It starts out NOT being that way, which explains why Cincy has gone from red to blue, and why Hamco is now in the process. But you’re right that the deeper you get into those who feel they have to move, the more likely it is that you’ll find people with blinders on who don’t understand that a lot of their core (mis)assumptions explain why they place they used to love went downhill. So then they work on ruining the politics and everything else about the next place they move to….
Comment by TBlumer — March 31, 2007 @ 5:28 pm