In the 1990s, the population of the Southwest Border state of Arizona grew by almost 40 percent. Arizona added almost 1,500,000 residents between 1990 and 2000; only four larger states—California, Texas, Florida, and Georgia—added more. All of the region’s states during this period grew at a rate well above the national average.[1]
This doesn’t mean that Washington, and more specifically Seattle didn’t grow. Since1990, Seattle grew by about 47,000 people, or 9 percent.[2] Well, it’s not a lot but at least it grew.
Photo of an Arizona mesa courtesy of roselawgroup.com
[1] Stephen S. Birdsall, Eugene J. Palka, Jon C. Malinowski, and Margo L. Price, Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada 7th Edition (Wiley, 2008), 287.
[2] “Seattle’s Population & Demographics,” last modified 2000, http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/Research/Population_Demographics/Prior_Censuses/1900-2000_Population_Housing_Trends/DPDS_007028.asp
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