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Nate is 100% correct.
I feel like you missed the single most common aspect of that particular Top 10 list – nine of the ten and the top eight are in warm climates. Indiana doesn’t have that advantage – nor mountains, or oceans and just a small slice of a Great Lake. Not much with can do about those geographic and climate restraints. But what we can do — but only with the help of a smarter and kinder state legislature — is to become a state with strong public education, that warmly embraces diversity (including immigrants from all over the world) and the arts and is not openly hostile towards LGBTQ communities. In this regard, Minnesota is a nice role model for us.
“Smarter and Kinder state legislature” – what does that mean? More lollipops for the constituents? Making sure our legislatures have read Kant and Hegel?
I used to agree that Minnesota used to seem like a nice role model, but I can assure you, most of Minnesota’s politics are driven by the Twin Cities (where over half the population lives), and most of its left-leaning population from the two main cities themselves, especially MPLS.
And MPLS is only a few notches above Portland in terms of devolving into an ideological cesspool. Uptown Minneapolis was a fashionable area–a more urbanized Broad Ripple–as recently as 2019. About 75% of the retail tenants have left because of the prevailing lawlessness. Downtown Minneapolis is basically a ghost town–the city that birthed Target can’t even support Targets within its city limits because of shoplifting. Nicollet Mall is without cars or people. Are they still avenging George Floyd’s death? How many more people need to get dragged into that gutter culture? How long before that gutter culture drags much of the rest of the state down with it? Will the people fleeing MPLS’s anarchy continue to vote for deluded pro-crime idealists when they move to the suburbs?
As for supporting LGBTQ communities, there’s a fine line between letting people live and marry who they want with ramrodding acceptance of all aspects of the subculture across mainstream life. Is there a place for those of us who support the former (let them marry) but not the latter: you know, people don’t want drag queens giving lap dances to 12-year-olds, or forcing churches or small businesses to embrace them? Or are people like us still “openly hostile”? If so, then oh well. They can move to Minneapolis.
Minneapolis has not attracted a new corporate headquarters in over 25 years. Progressive friendly states are losing population in droves. The facts don’t support your assertion.
Oh, but it certainly is a covariate to blame. Aside from refusing to give Indianapolis its fair share of road funding, and they constantly get overly-involved in Indianapolis affairs. In many cases, they won’t let the city lead.
And it doesn’t help that we are a cold weather city either.
Why did Indiana miss on the Intel plant that went to Ohio? We don’t have the workforce. What education investments is the supermajority making in the future? Why is the buck passed that the longer Republicans control schools, as they have since 2007-2008, the worse the outcomes get for students?
Joe, Ohio’s workforce is only marginally better than Indiana’s. If college education were a metric, Columbus would be ahead of Indy, but only by an indistinct margin. Indy is better educated than Cleveland or Cincinnati. If we want to split hairs, it may be possible that Columbus’s tiny advantage, mostly amplified by OSU, was the deal breaker. And it might come down to certain specialized skill sets already present, though I wouldn’t know what those might be. But, by and large, the message in Ohio is the same as Indiana: concerns of brain drain, worries about geographic blandness and weather. Even the Columbus-based media is admitting that most of these lucrative jobs won’t require college degrees: https://www(dot)dispatch(dot)com/story/business/employment/2023/02/06/intel-project-in-ohio-to-test-regions-workforce-ability/69866389007/
I mean, if Intel were to choose a place with a more significant education advantage but also a reasonably business friendly culture, they’d go to Raleigh/Durham or Atlanta or somewhere in Texas. If education were the pure basis (not a business friendly culture), they could choose the aforementioned MPLS/St Paul or Chicago.
Chances are, Intel chose Indiana over Ohio (and its other counterparts) because of very slight, seemingly subtle but ultimately deal-breaking financial incentives: e.g., Ohio’s willingness to submit to the federal stipulations of the CHIPS and Science Act.
I guess it’s particularly weird since, while Indiana has been a GOP stronghold for quite sometime, Ohio has only recently gone from light GOP to strong GOP. Yet still gets Intel. Is their GOP really that much more enlightened than Indiana’s?
Correction in my second-to-last paragraph: Intel chose Ohio over Indiana, obviously.
They’re able to land the deals. They’re able to keep Honda happy. They’re able to land Intel.
Indiana gets distribution centers. Lots of them.
And you know what else Ohio has? Decent infrastructure. Multiple times a year, I exit podunk Indiana and head into podunk Ohio. I know the moment I hit Ohio because the two lane roads are wider AND smoother.
Do I have the solution? No. But I would put forth that Indiana’s taxes are, if anything, too low and we aren’t investing enough in infrastructure.
It’s interesting that Feldman credits state gov’t for putting cities like Nashville and Austin at the top of the list, but then tasks the Indy mayor, city council and corporate and civic leaders with developing a strategy for Indy to move up. As others have noted, that’s difficult with a legislature that hates home rule. BTW 8 of the top 10 cities are led by Democrat mayors but it’s the GOP-led state legislatures that Feldman credits for their success.