Go eastward (from the West Coast), young Americans

There’s a reverse flow of population in the West, drifting from expensive coastal cities to interior boomtowns. It’s definitely changing the politics of the Rockies, while also stirring resentments at "Aspenization."

Not long ago, I spent a fascinating few days in Missoula, Mont., a college town that now feels a lot like Boulder and Eugene and Bellingham. Mountain-grit Missoula is a pale-blue city in a red state that is itself turning blue. Truth is, the coastal West is moving into the Interior West, as mobile knowledge workers head for places with good schools, nearby fishing streams, and plenty of people like us.

By David Brewster

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