As somebody who endured five years in North Dakota, which felt more like twenty-five, I relished your article about the state’s ongoing economic desperation and youth outmigration issues. Well, “youth outmigration” is a polite term for anybody young and smart leaving the state in any kind of vehicle that will run just as quick as they can get together enough jack for gas and enough courage to go someplace with decent career opportunities. The article was, if anything, too damned kind to North Dakota, a place best described as a “rural ghetto” and the “economic hurt bag of the nation.”
John Hoff
Appleton, MN
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