What do you think your state will look like 10 years hence?

[cali]

Economically?

Environmentally?

Politically?

I'm curious and I'd like to paint a picture of U.S.A. 2023 using your impressions.

P.S. Could you please name your state in the title space.

[Scuba]

1. Think "open pit mine swirling in black smoke".

[HereSince1628]

13. Ya, Black Friday door opener: Koch clean water tablets

place in glass add clean water.

Gives brown tap-water that familiar blue-green shimmer and taconite taste we all loved to swim in up north.

[Fumesucker]

21. I doubt Koch would do anything so straightforward

[ZM90]

2. State is OK so nuts as ever.

[B Calm]

3. Not much ever changes behind the Hoosier Iron Curtain. .

We are always behind the rest of the country. Probably be light years before we have medicinal marijuana.

[Boom Sound 416]

4. Taller and more expensive

NYC

[cali]

5. and the rest of your state?

[Boom Sound 416]

6. Oh yeah

Flatter and more expensive

[cali]

7. Isn't the NYC region forecast to be majorly impacted by Climate

Change?

More storms like Sandy?

[Fumesucker]

22. Make that wetter and much more expensive

[LuvNewcastle]

8. There will be huge gopher holes all over the state that were made from fracking,

and you'll see bottled water delivery trucks making deliveries to all of the mobile homes. All along the burning waterways will be gigantic, garish casinos where oil and gas workers will go and spend their checks, at least the part that isn't spent at all the bars and strip clubs.

[newfie11]

9. South Dakota

No change

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Texas. And I think it will be BLUE...

I see a shift in thinking. The "old guard" is dying, retiring, getting too tired to hit the polls.

[Skidmore]

11. Iowa always strikes a good balance between

progress and tradition. We have had one of the most progressive histories for legal and social civil rights, something that people don't really seem to recognize. I think we will still move into the future with as many technological advances as can be maintained in a rural, agricultural state and have been working steadily at getting alternative energy sources in place. There has been much work on restoring wetlands and prairie around the farms. We are an aging state. What I hope for is that young people will stay or come here to maintain what is best about Iowa and build on it. I really do love this state. I was born across the Mississippi in Illinois, but have always felt totally at home here. Iowa is good people--except for a few that persist in electing Steve King.

We are still awaiting the birth of Admiral James T. Kirk.

[el_bryanto]

12. Florida - I imagine an archipelego of heavily fortified floating cities

where the average people ride around in souped up moter boats and are inexplicably well armed - kind of like Mad Max but on water.

Wait - that's Waterworld, isn't it?

Give me a few minutes I'll come up with something better.

Bryant

[adavid]

14. Well, here in Indiana,....

where you cant even buy beer on Sunday and a creature for a "Governor" named Mike Pence.........

[kydo]

15. Fl - Blue in more ways then politics

Florida

Economically?
Lots of rebuilding so kind of money and jobs but the rebuilding is related to question #2. (see #2 answer)

Environmentally?
I except to see the state lose land because of rising sea levels. More and stronger hurricanes. More non native species, like killer bees, snakes, etc probably doing more harm then good.

Politically?
Mostly left leaning by then. But this is Florida so it will still be a mess.

[SamKnause]

16. My state: OHIO

Ohio will increase fracking.

Ohio will increase coal mining.

Ohio will increase the amount of toxic waste they accept from other states.

Religion will continue to intrude the public domain and public education.

There is a good chance we will become a 'right to work' state.

Women's right will continue to be assaulted.

Contraception and abortion will be harder to obtain.

All of the White Supremacy groups will continue to grow in numbers.

The hate for undocumented people and homosexuals will continue.

Taxes on the wealthy will be lowered.

Assistance for the poor, unemployed and disabled will diminish.

Anything that can be privatized, will be privatized.

[s-cubed]

17. BLUE VIRGINIA nt

[Champion Jack]

18. West Virginia, a smoldering ,poisonous sacrifice zone

The legacy of extreme extraction will finally drive a stake into the heart of this area
Poison water, poisoned air, not many places you can grow food or raise livestock. Very few mountains will be left in the "Mountain State"
The warming planet will eventually kill off all of the hardwood forests.
The people who stay here will die younger and live miserable lives but they will still just hang their heads and go "....but, I got me a new truck....." Followed by
"I don't understand what you're talking about ,but, I don't like it"
The official state motto will be changed from "mountaineers must be free" to
"there was nothing I could do"

[NCTraveler]

19. Florida

In ten years we will be about the same as we are now. We are very good at taking small steps back, then small steps forward. While doing so, we kind of stay in a state of stagnation. Our citizens are very reliant on outside money, so if the economy doesn't fall off a cliff, stagnation is where we will be. We will also be a little bluer. We seem to be trending in that direction for major offices. The problem there is that our state house will hold red. That will also lend itself towards stagnation.

[rbrnmw]

20. OHIO Bluer than Blue

I hope

[canoeist52]

23. well....An important part of our state...

Let's just say our canoes will come in handy in eastern MA.

http://planetucker.com/2009/01/04/boston-under-water.aspx

[Fumesucker]

24. The MetroAtlanta Imperium will annex Chattanooga, Athens and Macon

Skirmishes between forces of the MAI and the Alabamaderacy over water rights to the Chattahoochee will be increasing.

There will be signs on I 285 reminding people that yes, this road is a big honking circle and no, that number is not the bleeping speed limit despite the fact that you are doing it and someone in an F150 is riding your tail and blinking their lights like something out of Close Encounters.

The state capitol building will still have gold on the dome to emphasize what you need to bring there in order to get a chance of being heard.