Platts Gets It; NY Times Does Not; A Corridor Of High Income Mobility Running Down The Midsection Of The United States (Most Of It NOT The Bakken)

Platts is tweeting: "NYT story doesn't state it, but graph shows US area with highest income mobility is the Bakken."

Platts is referring to this story in The New York Times. On a per capita basis, North Dakota would surprise a lot of non-car-owning NYT reporters. The Times narrative completely avoided comment on the dark blue areas (incredible good areas) in North Dakota -- I guess the reporters felt the region was an outlier (a "one-off") or the Bakken story did not fit their narrative.

Wow! Look at that top graphic at the top of the linked article: Williams County and Dunn County. Drag your "mouse icon" over the dark blue areas in North Dakota: Williston and Dickinson are singled out. The only other area in the entire US with a similar number is the Vernal area east of Salt Lake City (a couple of minor exceptions in South Dakota and North Dakota, also with sky-high income mobility).

If you spend some time on the graphic, you will notice that there is a corridor of high income mobility running down the midsection of the United States.

Scroll down and play with the interactive US map at the linked article above: you can find specifically how your area is doing. 

I would assume much of the success "achieved" by young folks in New York City and Boston has to do with silver spoons and nepotism. 

CarpeDiem has posted a gazillion stories about the successes of the Bakken. It's hard to believe that The New York Times missed it. Well, maybe it's not surprising.