Foreground, Pennsylvania. Wind turbines, Maryland. Smoke Stack, West Virginia.
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Look What a Deer Did to This Maryland Snow Plow
Farm along Maryland 42
Allegheny Front
The Allegheny Front stands as the prominent escarpment facing southeast or east within the Allegheny Mountains, spanning southern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and eastern West Virginia in the USA. Serving as a demarcation, the Allegheny Front acts as the dividing line between the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians to the east and the Appalachian Plateau (often referred to as the Allegheny Plateau) to the west. This geological feature is intimately linked with the Eastern Continental Divide of the Appalachian Mountains. In this region, the Eastern Continental Divide separates the watersheds of the Ohio/Mississippi river system, which flow towards the Gulf of Mexico, from those of rivers that eventually empty into Chesapeake Bay and further into the Atlantic Ocean.
Nonetheless, it's important to note that the Allegheny Front and the Divide don't always perfectly align. For instance, the North Branch of the Potomac River originates significantly west of the Allegheny Front, near the Fairfax Stone located at the southwestern tip of Maryland. It's merely around 10 miles (16 km) away and situated across the physical divide from the headwaters of the Youghiogheny River, which flows westward into the Monongahela and Ohio rivers.
A trip into a dark and scary land? 👨🌾
I’m tired of people telling me that as soon as you leave the borders of New York State that you literally fall off the edge of the earth – descending into a deep, darkish hell of religious cults, perfectly flat and boring land where you can see curvature of the earth, dark and dingy cities under clouds of black smoke from outdated factories where everybody lives short and brutish lives.
Somehow I just don’t think that’s true from the various trips I’ve taken in Central and Western Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. Places where you tell about and you get a blank expression on people’s faces. There are likely many fascinating and delightful places in America that aren’t the tourist books, that are charming and unique. Maybe the reason it’s a blank space on the map is not because there is nothing of value there but because the map maker left it off the map intentionally or otherwise.
I should explore some of these places. I feel like my world is too small and the Midwest and Rockies offers a lot too see. I’m tired of everything being just one big suburban subdivision, always hearing just one right view on everything, with everything else being dangerous and wrong. Upstate New York really is very crowded, and while you can get some rural deep country it’s often still tied back into the urban zeitgeist of New York City Metro Area that represents 70% of the state.
Maybe it’s time to board a plane, head for one of the big cities along the Missouri River, rent a car and drive west to the Rockies, heading through Nebraska and South Dakota, taking two lane highways except to bypass the cities. Drive as much as possible each day with a careful eye on the landscape. Visit some parks and national forests, but not make that the sole part of the trip but as an aside. Maybe occasionally stay in motels but also hammock camp or get some shut eye along the road. Maybe find a city of 20,000 to 40,000 that I like the countryside around that is affordable and has low unemployment that I like the vibe. Not for next week but to keep in the back pocket for my future.
Population of State Capital Metro Regions
NAMEASCII ADM1NAME POP_MAX
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1 Atlanta Georgia 4506000
2 Boston Massachusetts 4467000
3 Phoenix Arizona 3551000
4 Denver Colorado 2313000
5 Sacramento California 1604000
6 Indianapolis Indiana 1436000
7 Providence Rhode Island 1277000
8 Columbus Ohio 1270000
9 Raleigh North Carolina 1163515
10 Austin Texas 1161000
11 Salt Lake City Utah 966000
12 Hartford Connecticut 913000
13 Richmond Virginia 912000
14 Nashville Tennessee 877000
15 Albany New York 870716
16 Oklahoma City Oklahoma 788000
17 Honolulu Hawaii 786000
18 St. Paul Minnesota 734854
19 Harrisburg Pennsylvania 528892
20 Baton Rouge Louisiana 422072
21 Columbia South Carolina 398093
22 Des Moines Iowa 380655
23 Trenton New Jersey 366513
24 Boise Idaho 338071
25 Madison Wisconsin 327447
26 Lansing Michigan 279952
27 Little Rock Arkansas 270893
28 Jackson Mississippi 250902
29 Lincoln Nebraska 246220
30 Salem Oregon 229010
31 Tallahassee Florida 221222
32 Montgomery Alabama 198325
33 Olympia Washington 156984
34 Springfield Illinois 134715
35 Topeka Kansas 132091
36 Charleston West Virginia 123799
37 Santa Fe New Mexico 92681
38 Annapolis Maryland 81300
39 Dover Delaware 76039
40 Cheyenne Wyoming 72927
41 Bismarck North Dakota 63871
42 Carson City Nevada 57341
43 Jefferson City Missouri 55139
44 Concord New Hampshire 44606
45 Helena Montana 38725
46 Frankfort Kentucky 36688
47 Juneau Alaska 30711
48 Augusta Maine 24042
49 Pierre South Dakota 13879
50 Montpelier Vermont 8538
New York Needs More Immigrants !
If there is anything one can read from today’s census numbers it is that.
Domestic out-migration remains high, as it has been for generations, attracted by lower taxes, friendlier business climate, and nicer weather in other parts of the country, while international immigration remains moderate but below other immigrant-friendly states like Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey.
Blue states can’t compete by pretending to be red states, cutting taxes and business regulation. But what they can do is attract people from overseas — be it highly educated individuals attracted to the high quality educational institutions and knowledge-based businesses of blue states, or migrants and asylum seekers seeking a better life in a blue states. When Florida or Texas says no, we should be saying yes.
It’s not just about doing what’s right for people who are truly in need, but also the federal dollars and representation that immigrants bring in. Otherwise, blue states like New York risk becoming increasingly irrelevant as far as governing is concerned and cut off from federal funding in the coming decades.