Joey Ferguson

11 February 2015

This choropleth map is really interesting to me. Firstly, it is important to note

that Nevada is the only state that had a population growth of between 40 and 67
percent. I found it odd that only Nevada would have such a statistic, even though
California, a bordering state, only has between 6 and 14.9 percent growth. This map
clearly shows that the west side of the country is growing much faster than the
east. This might be one of many reasons that the geographic center of population in
the US is continually moving west. The entire Midwest is growing at a decent rate,
just not nearly at the rates of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Nevada. This map
does not clearly define if any states lost population, but it would be noteworthy to
know that more people decided to leave the state than come into the state. New
England seems to have reached its peak when it comes to population change. This
might be because when the United States was colonized, the east coast was utilized
much more than anywhere else, and it could have gotten to the point where growth
rates are approaching zero.