AHC: More People In Wyoming

kernals12

Banned
geez, what's with you guys wanting to put crowds of people in my nice thinly-populated state? But yeah, the problems have been addressed... a lack of well watered arable land, no real gold/silver rushes, etc. It's notable that MT, with a similar situation, didn't reach a million people until a few years ago...
If the problem is water, then why not build one of those super elaborate and environmentally destructive water management systems that were super popular mid 20th century. As for why I want your state to have more people, it's because I'm annoyed that you guys get 70 times as much senate representation on a per person basis as California. 13 times is much more tolerable.
 
If the problem is water, then why not build one of those super elaborate and environmentally destructive water management systems that were super popular mid 20th century...

A customer of mine was a academic specializing in the economics of water rights. Back in the 1990s some colleagues & her got a contract to write up a water management plan for the greater Colorado Springs region. The group labored away for a couple years and presented a plan for revamping water use for the 21st Century. The politicians and businessmen in the group that contracted the academics looked it all over and said 'No, this not what we wanted. We want a plan that lets us go on using water as we presently are. No inconvenient changes.' I have long lost contact with her & have no idea what the outcome was.
 

kernals12

Banned
A customer of mine was a academic specializing in the economics of water rights. Back in the 1990s some colleagues & her got a contract to write up a water management plan for the greater Colorado Springs region. The group labored away for a couple years and presented a plan for revamping water use for the 21st Century. The politicians and businessmen in the group that contracted the academics looked it all over and said 'No, this not what we wanted. We want a plan that lets us go on using water as we presently are. No inconvenient changes.' I have long lost contact with her & have no idea what the outcome was.
The real problem with water is that we don't price it according to supply and demand. There is no natural resource that is more mismanaged than our most important one.
 
geez, what's with you guys wanting to put crowds of people in my nice thinly-populated state? But yeah, the problems have been addressed... a lack of well watered arable land, no real gold/silver rushes, etc. It's notable that MT, with a similar situation, didn't reach a million people until a few years ago...

To annoy you :p
 
A way for Wyoming to get more people is to offer free tuition to the public universities and colleges to residents including Ph.D. programs, create their own medical, veterinary, and dental schools, become an early leader in technology research, this will create businesses around where the universities and colleges are located.
 
Subsidize education! Some folks would call that Socialism and have a fit. Next you'll want to burn money on infrastructure projects, provide incentives for skilled workers to move there, and other things people might suspect as Communist.
 
Back in the 1970s a independence moment gets rolling in Wyoming. It may not succeed then, but the states reputation for resistance to the Feds & everything else attracts eventually over one million survivalists, white supremacists, anti Feds, business attracted to a perception of lack of regulation, & others disaffected with the rest of the US.

The Free State Project chooses Wyoming instead of New Hampshire as its target for people to move to.


Alternatively, the Jewish Territorialist Organization decides that the American West would be a good place to settle Jews in. The climate isn't all that different from the pale, temperature-wise, so you could little shtetls on the prairie.

I wonder what sort of culture we'd see there in either case; the 'Free State' or the Jewish state. Kibbitzu cattle ranches? A belief the US is run by Jewish bankers in Cheyenne? Post 1945 Jewish migrants question on leaving Europe: Palestine, or Jacksons Hole?
 

kernals12

Banned
I wonder what sort of culture we'd see there in either case; the 'Free State' or the Jewish state. Kibbitzu cattle ranches? A belief the US is run by Jewish bankers in Cheyenne? Post 1945 Jewish migrants question on leaving Europe: Palestine, or Jacksons Hole?
I think you mean Jackson Hole.
 
You are talking about changing the earth's geology. That goes in the ASB section
Not necessarily. New discoveries happen all of the time. Recently, the Permian Basin in Texas was found to have more "hidden" oil that was long thought to be already "pumped out."

There is another thread out there about finding a place to re-settle Jews before they could be lost to the Holocaust.

But really, isn't water the limiting factor in this region?
 

kernals12

Banned
Not necessarily. New discoveries happen all of the time. Recently, the Permian Basin in Texas was found to have more "hidden" oil that was long thought to be already "pumped out."

There is another thread out there about finding a place to re-settle Jews before they could be lost to the Holocaust.

But really, isn't water the limiting factor in this region?
I've decided that it is. And I made a seperate thread about fixing that problem.
 

kernals12

Banned
Not necessarily. New discoveries happen all of the time. Recently, the Permian Basin in Texas was found to have more "hidden" oil that was long thought to be already "pumped out."

There is another thread out there about finding a place to re-settle Jews before they could be lost to the Holocaust.

But really, isn't water the limiting factor in this region?
Our technology for finding mineral deposits has improved. But it's highly unlikely that there is some big oilfield under Wyoming that nobody's stumbled upon that could've been discovered with 1950s technology.
 
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