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...boom time in the Rockies. While most of the U.S. is suffering from the blues, or stuck in an outright funk like California, the six states along the spectacular spine of the Rockies -- from Montana in the north through Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah to New Mexico in the south -- are prospering happily. This is the good-news belt. Since 1991, economic growth has regularly exceeded 5%, compared with an anemic 1% in the rest of the country. The last time the U.S. as a whole enjoyed comparable growth was 1984. The Rockies' unemployment rate is 5.4%, nearly 2 points...
...West, replacing California as the ultimate, mythmaking destination, tantalizing the daydreams of restless souls itching to pick up and move. "These are sustainable economies, absolutely. It's not just another cycle but a permanent, historic shift," says Richard Lamm, the popular three-term former Governor of Colorado who now teaches public policy at the University of Denver. The Rockies' notorious history of booms and busts that created ghost towns as suddenly as gold rushes may be over...
...Cherokee or the Range Rover maneuvered by a young professional who more likely than not favors gun control. "I love it here in Denver," says Tom Bauer, 33, a Harvard-educated architect who left Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Los Angeles to try his hand at environment-sensitive design in Colorado. "Sure, I worry about urban problems like crime catching up to us here, but I guess I'm hopeful they can be resolved by people voting the right way for things like gun control...
...gravy train in the latest recession and said, 'Why live in New York or L.A.? I can have a modem and a fax and live anywhere I like.' The upscale golden eagles go to Jackson Hole or Vail, the plain mid-scale eagles to Buffalo, Wyoming, or Grand Junction, Colorado...
...overreliant on natural resources ever since the silver rushes of the 1870s and 1880s -- to diversify. Idaho also continued to help small companies grow larger while encouraging the new high-tech industries around Boise. Wyoming revived its moribund coal fields with the world's most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid-off workers into gleaming new aerospace, computer-software and financial-services facilities. "The Rockies became leaner and meaner ahead of the rest...