SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — Great Britain’s venerable economics journal, “The Economist,” writes in a new study that America’s Midwest “can pack an outsized punch.”
They cite several large Midwestern states turning the 2016 Presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor and the killing of George Floy in Minneapolis and the resulting protests around the world.
“The Economist’s” Midwest includes the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, and Indiana.
They say with 68 million residents, the 12-state area has as many people as France or Germany and contains 20% of the U.S. population. With a gross domestic product of $4 trillion, it has an economy that is similar in size to Germany’s, making it the fourth-largest economy in the world.
The journal notes that the region is not generally well connected to each other, particularly the major cities. To the exclusion of the western Midwest states (South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas), “The Economist” concludes, “In short, the key for the region’s future is urban.”
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