McClatchy: Changing population scrambles regional stereotypes

Forget about the Midwest, Kansas City. You’re now part of the “New Heartland.”

So are you Charleston, S.C, even with all your Spanish moss and Southern charm, and Portland Ore., way out there on the Pacific Coast.

These three metropolitan areas couldn’t be further apart geographically.

Demographically, however, they might have more in common with each other than they do with some of their regional neighbors, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

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