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Is brain drain happening from extreme conservative states
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No, quite the opposite in fact
You're right, every Fields Medal winner and electrical engineer is desperate to move to Mississippi
At the absolute top level maybe not. The highly skilled are indeed moving. The stars will follow once the institutions build up
The fields medalists are in Boston because the Ken Griffins of the 1700-1900 were in Boston
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/can-ken-griffin-build-a-u-chicago-of-the-south-in-miami -
I doubt it. Going into your point a bit, given the wealth being generated and moving to the South, I suspect we will see an generation long movement of brains to the South (Think, ACC and SEC states.). Alabama has more National Merit Scholars than Harvard....(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Merit_Scholarship_Program)
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Citadel to Florida, Tesla to Texas. It's probably more common than you think. Hedge Funds to FL, Tech to Texas.
Tesla is back to CA. Just the HQ is in TX for tax reasons. TX is like ireland.
And the only city that has tech in TX is… austin, which is more blue than CA.