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Glaeser and Jesse M. Shapiro, "City Growth and the 2000 Census: Which Places Grew, and Why" (Center of Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institution, May 2001), p. 9, http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2001/05demographics_edward-glaeser-and-jesse-m—shapiro.aspx .
    8. Glaeser and Berry, "The Divergence of Human Capital," pp. 2–11. See also Michael E. Porter, "The Economic Performance of Regions,"
Regional Studies
37, nos. 6 & 7 (August/October 2003). 550–51.
    9. Joe Cortright, "The Young and Restless," p. 10.
    10. Ibid., p. 29.
    11. Yolanda K. Kodrycki, "Migration of Recent College Graduates: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth,"
New England Economic Review,
January/February 2001, p. 15.
    12. Cortright, "The Young and Restless," p. 43.
    13. Porter, "The Economic Performance of Regions," p. 553.
    14. Ibid., p. 550.
    15. Glaeser and Berry, "The Divergence of Human Capital," pp. 29–30.
    16. Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal,
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).
    17. Paul Seabright,
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), p. 198.
    18. Richard Florida,
The Rise of the Creative Class
(New York: Basic Books, 2002), pp. 236–42.
    19. William O'Hare and Bill Bishop, "U.S Rural Soldiers Account for a Disproportionately High Share of Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan" (fact sheet, Carsey Institute, Fall 2006).
    20. "Enlistment Supply in the 1990s" (Defense Manpower Data Center Report No. 2000–015, April 2001).
    21. Roger Alford, "Fedex Has No Plans to Resume Drug Deliveries,"
Whitesburg (KY) Mountain Eagle,
March 2, 2005, p. B1.
    22. Tom Lasseter, "A Familiar Story: From Miner to Drug User to Dealer,"
Lexington Herald-Leader,
December 7, 2003, p. A1.
    23. Charles B. Camp, "Millions Sold, Office by Office,"
Lexington Herald-Leader,
August 17, 2003, p. A1.
    24. "OxyContin Maker Pleads Guilty to Misleading Public on Risks,"
Wall Street Journal,
May 10, 2007.
    25. "Drug Overdose Numbs Appalachia,"
Lexington Herald-Leader,
January 19, 2003, p. A8.
    26. Laura Ungar, "Poverty Fuels Medical Crisis,"
Louisville Courier-Journal,
September 25, 2005, p. A1.
    27. See Richard Florida, Robert Cushing, and Gary Gates, "When Social Capital Stifles Innovation,"
Harvard Business Review,
August 1, 2002; the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, on which we based our analysis, can be found at http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/data/datasets/social_capital_community_survey.html .
    28. Professor Putnam has made the DDB Needham Life Style survey, conducted by the advertising firm DDB Worldwide of Chicago, available at http://www.bowlingalone.com/data.htm .
    29. Florida,
The Rise of the Creative Class,
pp. 273–76.
    30. Edward L. Glaeser and Joshua D. Gottlieb, "Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City" (Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Paper 2109, 2006), pp. 6–9.
    31. Paul M. Romer, "Two Strategies for Economic Development: Using Ideas and Producing Ideas," in
Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics,
1992, pp. 68–69.
    32. Joe Cortright, "New Growth Theory, Technology and Learning: A Practitioner's Guide" (U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration, Reviews of Economic Development Literature and Practice, no. 4, 2001), http://cherry.iac.gatech.edu/REFS/TRP-Ref/cortrightngt.pdf .
    33. Ibid., p. 4.
    34. Ibid., pp. 4–6.
    35. Ibid., p. 2.
    36. Jane Jacobs,
The Economy of Cities
(New York: Vintage Books, 1970), pp. 51–52.
    37. Ibid., pp. 52–53.
    38. Paul Romer, "Innovation: The New Pump of Growth,"
Blueprint: Ideas for a New Century,
Winter 1998.
    39. Jacobs,
The Economy of Cities,
pp. 85–121.
    40. Robert E. Lucas Jr., "On the Mechanics of Economic Development,"
Journal of Monetary Economics
22 (1988). 38–39.
    41. Mark S. Granovetter, "The Strength of