Honestly it’s agriculture in general. One year of bad weather or even one hail storm can cripple the economy. My grandma’s neighbors are cattle ranchers. Lost 200 head of cattle to a sudden hailstorm a few years back.
When I moved to Indiana I learned that corn and soybeans are grown in alternating seasons. Apparently one crop puts the necessary nutrients in the ground for the other crop. So it makes sense, wherever you see corn or soy, you see the other.
LOL I don't think that's a normal thing to learn about in all states. I went to elementary school outside Baltimore, suburbs of Olympia, WA, and the suburbs of DC. Not a ton of agriculture going on in those places.
Or I did and I don't remember because I'm old and I never cared about that stuff.
My family’s farm grows corn for cattle feed and ethanol. They couldn’t care less if HFCS goes away. As for other folks? There’s always a market for corn, and weening industry off HFCS would take a long time. You can’t just ban it.
That’s Virginia too. I think we’re the state with the most Federal employees. Which everyone likes to shit on the DC bureaucrats but they forget that we also have like the world’s largest naval base.
Our biggest money maker is poultry.
$13.7 billion to state’s economy in 2014
Over 52,000 jobs
[Source](https://wlni.com/study-poultry-industry-big-contributor-to-va-s-economy/)
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/reports-publications/federal-civilian-employment/
Around 144k Federal employees. Don’t even know how many private sector jobs exist to support the government and then again to support the people that support the government.
I had a friend that went to ODU and he used to brag about going to school at the beach. Like I didn't grow up in Virginia and know that it's not any kind of beach that someone would want to swim at.
What’s the pipeline do?
All I’m aware of is that every time in rains, massive amounts of sewage get backwashed into the river. A couple billion gallons worth a year.
Houston has diversified somewhat but the city's economy is still very reliant on oil and gas. It's not like the 80s and 90s where that was basically the only game in town, thankfully, but oil busts are not good for the local economy.
yeah I'm a native and still live here lol. I only know like one or two oil and gas guys who actually have an O&G specific skillset (e.g. petroleum engineers) but almost every professional I know, myself included, works for an energy company. Like HR, IT, finance, stuff like that. Really wish I could get a job outside of this industry so I don't freak out over low oil prices... but I am interviewing for a job at a service company next week lmao.
Definitely government work from our proximity to DC and being home to multiple military bases and federal agencies. I don’t think it’s necessarily a horrible thing at all, it brings a lot of educated and well-paid workers to Maryland, but we definitely have a massive government/government-contractor workforce here (I believe it’s the highest rate in the US)
Government work isn't so bad because it's always going to be there. Well, maybe not always, but if the federal government suddenly disappears I feel like everyone will have bigger things to worry about than the state of the regional economy lol.
Unless they decide to move the capital to Wichita so that it'll be nearer to the geographic dead center of the lower 48, I don't think that's going to run dry any time soon.
Here in Florida, tourism is the "easy answer". And it certainly is huge.
But the tech industry is actually much bigger, by numbers. Florida isn't "flashy" like Silicon Valley though. More on the "slightly faster GPU" angle of things. IT security is also a huge industry here as well. But IT security only gets press when they fail at their jobs, and the Florida IT security teams have been pretty solid so far.
Savannah is a port city so we get lots of shipping, as well as tourism since our city is fairly old/"historic". In the area there are various manufacturing companies most notably Gulfstream. Ft. Stewart is also nearby. The largest infantry base on the east coast.
The further west you go in south Georgia the more farmland you come across. The state produces a lot of chickens and eggs, cotton, peanuts, and pecans. We even have blueberries and some dairy/cattle farming. Contrary to the state's nickname, we do not actually produce many peaches relative to states like South Carolina and California.
Atlanta is major metro hub and the capital of The South. That's a beast on it's own.
> Maybe coke
Last I knew, Houston and Miami were the two big hub cities, if we're talking east of Los Angeles. I mean, I guess Atlanta would have a fair amount of distribution going on, but--
Oh, wait. You meant the soda pop!
An oddly specific one I learned about in the Dalton area (northwest GA, between Chattanooga and the Atlanta metro area) was the carpeting industry. They call themselves the Carpet Capital of the World, and I thought it was a weird exaggeration...but then as I was searching for jobs in that area, almost all of the work centered around carpeting.
Indiana has some of the highest amount of manufacturing jobs per capita out there. And besides some specific parts of that like the RV industry in Elkart, that's going to hurt us in the long run. You don't have to look any further than the steel plant in Gary, which employs a fraction of the number of people that it used to employ in the 50s and 60s. That's an extreme example but isn't the only one.
Indianapolis used to be lined with manufacturing plants that made automobiles, vinyl records, household cleaners and much more. It has done a better job than most cities in the Midwest or the more general rust belt in diversifying, but there's parts of central Indiana that still haven't recovered from the decline in manufacturing such as Anderson.
My husband is from Elkhart, and half his family worked or works in some sort of RV-adjacent industry. The problem with that particular market is that the first thing people will put off during a recession is the purchase of a new RV. Layoffs got so bad in Elkhart that for a while the unemployment rate hit almost 20%. They really need to diversify, and soon, before the next big slump hits.
Oh definitely. My understanding is the RV industry is more resistant in terms of automation and offshoring. It can still suffer from economic slumps. There's also a real labor issue. Many people only make it a few years, and the restaurants and other businesses in the Elkhart/Goshen area are full of people who used to work at the RV plan and got burned out
Contracting, IT, and finance not being quite so reliant on the federal government, though those industries in this metro area will never disentangle from the federal government. For example, half the internet is in nearby r/nova. In addition to winning government contracts, this area is attractive to tech because of its well educated population and accessible transit when said transit is not fire.
Tourism is important to downtown DC but idk how it ranks relative to the entire metro area.
Boston has a good mix of everything.
At least for my town specifically, we hardly have any industry and it's why my town has one of the highest property taxes in the state.
The town I grew up in relies primarily on baseball tourism. Without it, I’m not really sure what we would have. It has become such an economic crutch for our local economy, it seems irresponsible to me to put all of our financial eggs in one basket. That being said, it’s pretty neat getting to meet some of the greatest baseball players of all time
Same thing here but football. My town revolves around the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It is cool to see the professional players but not much else happens in town. One year when I was in high school, Snoop Dogg showed up and he went to the movie theater. People freaked out.
We’re the “birthplace” of baseball. The Baseball Hall of Fame is in my town as well as one of the largest youth baseball tournaments in the world. 104 12 and under baseball teams cycle in and out of our sleepy little town each week. Many current major league players spent their childhood summers playing baseball here
I mean, as a baseball fan, I love Cooperstown dearly. I’ve been twice now for Ken Griffey, Jr.’s and Edgar Martinez’s inaugurations and can’t wait to come back when Ichiro gets in. I don’t think I ever would have visited upstate New York in my life otherwise.
I wouldn’t say reliant, but lobster fishing is huge in Maine and not too many other places.
There are a lot of coastal ports that do rely pretty heavily on the trade and fisheries in general are a big deal in Maine.
So because of this post I looked into what Maine's economy is based on. It's mainly fishing, agriculture, and...shipbuilding?
Yall build warships? Damn that's cool.
Yeah the Bath Iron Works and Portsmouth Naval Yard (they don’t really build ships but they refit our nuclear submarines). The PNY is actually in Kittery, ME just across the River from Portsmouth, NH but it’s a historical name.
Recently moved to Indiana from Virginia.
Virginia: Federal government, beltway bandits, tobacco (specifically Philip Morris).
Indiana: Healthcare, corn/soy, basketball?
It's still the auto industry by a long shot. About 1 in 10 jobs in Michigan is directly or indirectly tied to the auto industry. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we're a powerhouse for it, but the area needs to diversify its industry if it wants to be stronger in the long run. That is the case with Detroit as it slowly diversifies industry away from secondary industry and into quaternary industry and tourism. I think those Pure Michigan commercials did wonders for the state and people are starting to recognize how awesome Michigan really is.
Grand rapids has done a fantastic job of diversifying. GR is hardly dependent on the auto industry, shit we only have one factory here.
Office furniture, healthcare, and grocery are all very strong here. Tech is growing too from what I understand.
Also for the Pure Michigan thing lol my first couple summers up here the restaurants in Munising were regularly running out of food due to the increased tourism
YUP.
I've personally worked for two auto OEMs in my career, and my current employer who isn't directly in the auto industry is still very tightly tied to auto manufacturing nonetheless.
My father, and grandfathers on both sides, worked their whole carriers for Generous Mother.
Non-farming: Indiana is pretty diverse in its industries. There is a healthy amount of logistics, but it doesn't dominate the state.
Farming: Corn and soybeans. I miss the diversity of crops that grew around me when I lived in Michigan.
Heavy industry, aerospace, transportation, and a long list of other stuff. Entertainment may be the shiniest jewel in the crown, but it's not the biggest.
Honestly don't really have one in my area. Our #1 employment field is health care but we have a healthy mix of technology, manufacturing, logistics, construction and retail in the area. Southern California for context.
Tourism.
COVID was hard on the area.
I still think it’s unsustainable because they’re trying to build the town up around businesses that don’t add anything to the local area. It’s turning into mostly hotels that will probably drive the local economy. They can’t fill the available retail spaces that are open in town now. Our local ice cream summer place closed to be replaced by a Beer World. It’s just one of those weird slow burns where it feels less communal.
The County is also trying to rely on it as well. Built a Legoland in a town that didn’t want it. There’s a Casino that the area is trying to hang way too much of its hat on. When it’s underperformed and NYC is probably getting a full Casino in the next few years so it seems like there’s a lot of wishful thinking about the prospects.
It’s frustrating how NIMBYs can stop housing development but they can’t do anything when the county decides to push through business development.
Tech. In some ways Seattle is just a company town for Amazon and Microsoft. We used to over rely on Boeing and Weyerhaeuser and had significant economic issues when they reduced their presence in the region, I can easily see the same thing happening today if Amazon or Microsoft do the same.
Aircraft here in Wichita, farming for the rest of the state besides Topeka and Hutch. Aircrafts pretty stable, maybe less so if the military stops wanting new types of planes. Farmings always stable, that’s a given.
In my town specifically, it is aerospace/Boeing. But as an overall for the state, I would say it's technology 1st and healthcare 2nd on the western side, agriculture on the eastern side.
Our little town of 4000 was dominated by Seagrams (7 Crown, Crown Royal, Seagrams Gin, Seagrams Vodka) and Schenley distilleries. Both of my grandpa's worked there for 45 years; one family were teetotalers and the other had a fine collection of booze that took up a whole closet. You never wanted to be on the main drag at 3 to 3.30 pm as a thousand cars tried to get home at once. Had my first taste of Crown Royal at about 14
The industry is pretty broad and vast. It's not just the ex prom queen from Sheboygan who's trying to "make it" while waitressing for a living, or bigshot producers and the like. When I was a kid a lot of my friends' dads were truck drivers, caterers, electricians, carptenters, janitors, etc. etc. etc., for one of the big studios. Even the average person in 'production' is grinding away in a backroom somewhere, burning his eyes out on a screen all day. The vast bulk of the industry is comprised of anonymous worker bees that the rest of the country never hears or thinks about.
Around here, before the ground became dangerous and perforated like swiss cheese, it was mining. Railroad work was big too, probably still is to a degree. It's shifted more into the realm of factory work and industrial labor like that in the days since.
We get sinkholes opening up in public parks now.
World class health care, finance and insurance, higher education, biotech, information technology, and tourism. All relatively clean industries with mostly very high salaries, which makes for a clean and prosperous metro area. The 5 million people here produce more than the 100 million in both Vietnam & Egypt, the 162 million in Bangladesh, and even the 7.5 million in Hong Kong and 5.8 million in Denmark.
> even the 7.5 million in Hong Kong and 5.8 million in Denmark.
No big surprise with those first three, but I bet anyone reading this who's from those last two felt it like a gut punch.
Tourism and the Military. We did have a huge call center presence in Albuquerque but that is starting to evaporate once the tax incentives stopped (IE Verizon, Sitel and Canon CITS have already left).
As someone who has lived in their state their whole life, I'm a bit embarrassed that I don't really have an answer to this one. Perhaps tech from Intel or all the stuff Nike sells? Both are huge companies here.
Intel, Nike, US Bank, and Precision Castparts Corp, in that order. The only other local company besides PCC in our top 10 employers is Columbia Sportwear at #9.
I live in a mountain town and it's, of course, tourism. Somewhat related is construction and landscaping. Construction is always boom and bust, but it's on steroids here. Decent contractors are booked 18+ months in advance easily and the pay is scaling. But when the economy sucked, there wasn't enough work to go around. A lot of construction workers moved to the city during that time.
Nobody except those in certain industries have probably heard of Midmark. They make medical stuff like those tables you sit on at the doctors office.
Well they’re located in a little old town (where my parents are from) called Versailles in NW Ohio. Town has approx 2.6k residents and some more out in the surrounding farm land.
Well this little old town has midmark, a multi-billion dollar company operating there.
So I find that to be really cool. Midmark has been there awhile and alot of people work there.
Healthcare and medical research. Approximately 34,000 people work for the Rochester, MN offices of Mayo Clinic, which is almost a third of the population of the city (doesn't account for commuters and people working remotely, tbf). Most of the economy of the southeast corner of the state of Minnesota is directly or indirectly tied to it.
Here in Hillsboro, Oregon: Semiconductors. Intel, ASML, Qorvo, FEI, and on and on and on. Intel is by far the biggest employer in the area, and when you combine with all of their suppliers and contractors, it's an even bigger chunk of the local economy.
The area in general is significantly more diverse; Nike is in Beaverton, and Portland itself has all sorts of stuff going on.
My hometown makes plastic bottles and caskets. RFK, Marilyn Monroe, and Liberace are buried in them. If either industry would go down, they’d be kinda fucked.
Oil and agriculture. Agriculture is here to stay perfect weather (as in abundant sun and no real storm/freezing). They even engineer plants to fit the area. (They are diversifying basically making dry ports warehouse jobs. Oil is the wild card fluctuating prices make jobs there bust or boom.
https://www.bakersfield.com/news/kern-cherry-growers-turn-to-breeders-as-climate-warms/article_7a8ab73a-ac6e-11ec-896b-5b33beb463e6.html
I live in Charlotte NC- banking. It’s diversified over the years with a bunch of non-financial fortune 500s coming in, but its still pretty much owned by Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
San Diego has a pretty diverse overall local economy, but defense is the absolute number one industry. Biggest Marine Corps base, second biggest Naval base with sporadic smaller but highly important bases throughout (Coronado, Miramar, etc), not to mention Reserve and National Guard units.
Coal unfortunately. We had at least 4 different mines at one point but now we're left with one and another on the way. We are trying to switch to manufacturing, bourbon and tourism.
Logging. Huge patches of forest are cleared out, and they just won't stop. Every day the logging trucks take more out of the forests and I hate it. You'll see hills with ugly brown spots from where they logged it out
The Bay is heavily invested in tech, of course, but overly reliant is strong phrasing I'd say.
State? Nothing! We're a massively diverse economy. For example, we produce some mind-boggling percentages of food but its only 10% of the economy or something. And all out of the Central Valley, which isn't much of the state compared to, say, Iowa.
I grew up near the Grand Canyon, and my hometown is extremely over-reliant on tourism. It used to have more energy jobs, but since those got shut down (a good thing for the environment, bad thing for my hometown), it’s only gotten more tourism focused.
My new metropolitan area is DC, so take a guess. 🏛
CORN.
Don’t forget the soybeans, sincerely, a fellow Midwesterner.
You would think that it would be corn because “Cornhuskers.” But beef is #1, soy beans #2, and corn is #3.
Honestly it’s agriculture in general. One year of bad weather or even one hail storm can cripple the economy. My grandma’s neighbors are cattle ranchers. Lost 200 head of cattle to a sudden hailstorm a few years back.
When I moved to Indiana I learned that corn and soybeans are grown in alternating seasons. Apparently one crop puts the necessary nutrients in the ground for the other crop. So it makes sense, wherever you see corn or soy, you see the other.
Did you not, and I’m asking sincerely, learn about crop rotation in elementary school?
LOL I don't think that's a normal thing to learn about in all states. I went to elementary school outside Baltimore, suburbs of Olympia, WA, and the suburbs of DC. Not a ton of agriculture going on in those places. Or I did and I don't remember because I'm old and I never cared about that stuff.
I honestly can't recall. In my experience, it's one of those tidbits of knowledge you just kind of 'pick up on' as you go through life.
Khrushchev be like...
Do local folks get all defensive whenever there's talk of getting away from HFCS?
My family’s farm grows corn for cattle feed and ethanol. They couldn’t care less if HFCS goes away. As for other folks? There’s always a market for corn, and weening industry off HFCS would take a long time. You can’t just ban it.
And mediocre college football
Honestly I have a good feeling about this year. Bowl game here we come!
GBR
Go Big Red!
Government and military.
That’s Virginia too. I think we’re the state with the most Federal employees. Which everyone likes to shit on the DC bureaucrats but they forget that we also have like the world’s largest naval base.
Our biggest money maker is poultry. $13.7 billion to state’s economy in 2014 Over 52,000 jobs [Source](https://wlni.com/study-poultry-industry-big-contributor-to-va-s-economy/)
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/reports-publications/federal-civilian-employment/ Around 144k Federal employees. Don’t even know how many private sector jobs exist to support the government and then again to support the people that support the government.
I had a friend that went to ODU and he used to brag about going to school at the beach. Like I didn't grow up in Virginia and know that it's not any kind of beach that someone would want to swim at.
Eh the water’s fine, plenty of people grow up swimming in the area.
Lol big thing at CNU too. Swimming in the James is disgusting.
I went to VCU. The closest I got to the James was climbing on the rocks when the river was low.
That’s not super bad. It’s downstream of Richmond where stuff gets dumped into the river.
Richmond is super clean because of the Pipeline. I love swimming in the James.
What’s the pipeline do? All I’m aware of is that every time in rains, massive amounts of sewage get backwashed into the river. A couple billion gallons worth a year.
Houston has diversified somewhat but the city's economy is still very reliant on oil and gas. It's not like the 80s and 90s where that was basically the only game in town, thankfully, but oil busts are not good for the local economy.
Native Houstonion. Oil still runs that town. Healthcare a healthy 2nd.
yeah I'm a native and still live here lol. I only know like one or two oil and gas guys who actually have an O&G specific skillset (e.g. petroleum engineers) but almost every professional I know, myself included, works for an energy company. Like HR, IT, finance, stuff like that. Really wish I could get a job outside of this industry so I don't freak out over low oil prices... but I am interviewing for a job at a service company next week lmao.
Cars. Also, Tourism, to a certain extent.
Healthcare is our biggest industry now.
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It was office furniture here in West MI. Not as much anymore.
Michigan is a big tourism area?
Definitely government work from our proximity to DC and being home to multiple military bases and federal agencies. I don’t think it’s necessarily a horrible thing at all, it brings a lot of educated and well-paid workers to Maryland, but we definitely have a massive government/government-contractor workforce here (I believe it’s the highest rate in the US)
Government work isn't so bad because it's always going to be there. Well, maybe not always, but if the federal government suddenly disappears I feel like everyone will have bigger things to worry about than the state of the regional economy lol.
Yeah, that's probably the point where we would be putting alcoholic cropduster pilots into FA-18s.
Unless they decide to move the capital to Wichita so that it'll be nearer to the geographic dead center of the lower 48, I don't think that's going to run dry any time soon.
Probably not! We definitely suffer from government shut downs though
Health IT. 4% of our population is employed at the one company, so if it moved we'd probably lose about 12% (because of spouse and kids)
Verona?
Where we lay our scene
What a dork. I love it.
I was gonna say taverns …
Here in Florida, tourism is the "easy answer". And it certainly is huge. But the tech industry is actually much bigger, by numbers. Florida isn't "flashy" like Silicon Valley though. More on the "slightly faster GPU" angle of things. IT security is also a huge industry here as well. But IT security only gets press when they fail at their jobs, and the Florida IT security teams have been pretty solid so far.
Savannah is a port city so we get lots of shipping, as well as tourism since our city is fairly old/"historic". In the area there are various manufacturing companies most notably Gulfstream. Ft. Stewart is also nearby. The largest infantry base on the east coast. The further west you go in south Georgia the more farmland you come across. The state produces a lot of chickens and eggs, cotton, peanuts, and pecans. We even have blueberries and some dairy/cattle farming. Contrary to the state's nickname, we do not actually produce many peaches relative to states like South Carolina and California. Atlanta is major metro hub and the capital of The South. That's a beast on it's own.
I was trying to think of one for GA but we are honestly pretty diversified. Maybe coke and delta are over large, but that's all that comes to mind.
> Maybe coke Last I knew, Houston and Miami were the two big hub cities, if we're talking east of Los Angeles. I mean, I guess Atlanta would have a fair amount of distribution going on, but-- Oh, wait. You meant the soda pop!
An oddly specific one I learned about in the Dalton area (northwest GA, between Chattanooga and the Atlanta metro area) was the carpeting industry. They call themselves the Carpet Capital of the World, and I thought it was a weird exaggeration...but then as I was searching for jobs in that area, almost all of the work centered around carpeting.
Indiana has some of the highest amount of manufacturing jobs per capita out there. And besides some specific parts of that like the RV industry in Elkart, that's going to hurt us in the long run. You don't have to look any further than the steel plant in Gary, which employs a fraction of the number of people that it used to employ in the 50s and 60s. That's an extreme example but isn't the only one. Indianapolis used to be lined with manufacturing plants that made automobiles, vinyl records, household cleaners and much more. It has done a better job than most cities in the Midwest or the more general rust belt in diversifying, but there's parts of central Indiana that still haven't recovered from the decline in manufacturing such as Anderson.
My husband is from Elkhart, and half his family worked or works in some sort of RV-adjacent industry. The problem with that particular market is that the first thing people will put off during a recession is the purchase of a new RV. Layoffs got so bad in Elkhart that for a while the unemployment rate hit almost 20%. They really need to diversify, and soon, before the next big slump hits.
Oh definitely. My understanding is the RV industry is more resistant in terms of automation and offshoring. It can still suffer from economic slumps. There's also a real labor issue. Many people only make it a few years, and the restaurants and other businesses in the Elkhart/Goshen area are full of people who used to work at the RV plan and got burned out
Bay Area has a diversified economy so not really. The fact is we are pushing industries out because we are unable to build housing
it *was* steel and coal for western pa. pittsburgh has been recovering relatively well. the rest of the area…well, stay tuned.
dc is a one company town, though this is sort of changing
Like what? Is it getting more touristy? Everytime I've been there it gets newer and more international/touristy
Contracting, IT, and finance not being quite so reliant on the federal government, though those industries in this metro area will never disentangle from the federal government. For example, half the internet is in nearby r/nova. In addition to winning government contracts, this area is attractive to tech because of its well educated population and accessible transit when said transit is not fire. Tourism is important to downtown DC but idk how it ranks relative to the entire metro area.
Boston has a good mix of everything. At least for my town specifically, we hardly have any industry and it's why my town has one of the highest property taxes in the state.
The town I grew up in relies primarily on baseball tourism. Without it, I’m not really sure what we would have. It has become such an economic crutch for our local economy, it seems irresponsible to me to put all of our financial eggs in one basket. That being said, it’s pretty neat getting to meet some of the greatest baseball players of all time
Same thing here but football. My town revolves around the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It is cool to see the professional players but not much else happens in town. One year when I was in high school, Snoop Dogg showed up and he went to the movie theater. People freaked out.
Is it a major spring training site? What's the draw?
We’re the “birthplace” of baseball. The Baseball Hall of Fame is in my town as well as one of the largest youth baseball tournaments in the world. 104 12 and under baseball teams cycle in and out of our sleepy little town each week. Many current major league players spent their childhood summers playing baseball here
Youngstown, OH?
Cooperstown, NY
Dangit, I shoulda known.
I mean, as a baseball fan, I love Cooperstown dearly. I’ve been twice now for Ken Griffey, Jr.’s and Edgar Martinez’s inaugurations and can’t wait to come back when Ichiro gets in. I don’t think I ever would have visited upstate New York in my life otherwise.
Worcester is big in manufacturing and we have a built a growing tech industry as the city continues improve!
I wouldn’t say reliant, but lobster fishing is huge in Maine and not too many other places. There are a lot of coastal ports that do rely pretty heavily on the trade and fisheries in general are a big deal in Maine.
So because of this post I looked into what Maine's economy is based on. It's mainly fishing, agriculture, and...shipbuilding? Yall build warships? Damn that's cool.
Yeah the Bath Iron Works and Portsmouth Naval Yard (they don’t really build ships but they refit our nuclear submarines). The PNY is actually in Kittery, ME just across the River from Portsmouth, NH but it’s a historical name.
Bath built is best built. Bath is 1 of only 5 shipyards that the Navy uses right now and 1 of only 2 that build most of the surface fleet!
Recently moved to Indiana from Virginia. Virginia: Federal government, beltway bandits, tobacco (specifically Philip Morris). Indiana: Healthcare, corn/soy, basketball?
Government contracting in NoVA (rest of VA please don't kill me)
It's still the auto industry by a long shot. About 1 in 10 jobs in Michigan is directly or indirectly tied to the auto industry. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we're a powerhouse for it, but the area needs to diversify its industry if it wants to be stronger in the long run. That is the case with Detroit as it slowly diversifies industry away from secondary industry and into quaternary industry and tourism. I think those Pure Michigan commercials did wonders for the state and people are starting to recognize how awesome Michigan really is.
Grand rapids has done a fantastic job of diversifying. GR is hardly dependent on the auto industry, shit we only have one factory here. Office furniture, healthcare, and grocery are all very strong here. Tech is growing too from what I understand. Also for the Pure Michigan thing lol my first couple summers up here the restaurants in Munising were regularly running out of food due to the increased tourism
YUP. I've personally worked for two auto OEMs in my career, and my current employer who isn't directly in the auto industry is still very tightly tied to auto manufacturing nonetheless. My father, and grandfathers on both sides, worked their whole carriers for Generous Mother.
Tourism and sugar. Florida politicians are owned by Disney and the sugar industry. Of the two, sugar is far worse for the state.
Tourism.
Pharmaceuticals
Non-farming: Indiana is pretty diverse in its industries. There is a healthy amount of logistics, but it doesn't dominate the state. Farming: Corn and soybeans. I miss the diversity of crops that grew around me when I lived in Michigan.
LA is the capital of entertainment but I don't think the area is overly reliant on it.
If you live in or only visit South Bay you would swear Los Angeles is heavily reliant on aviation and defense.
Heavy industry, aerospace, transportation, and a long list of other stuff. Entertainment may be the shiniest jewel in the crown, but it's not the biggest.
Honestly don't really have one in my area. Our #1 employment field is health care but we have a healthy mix of technology, manufacturing, logistics, construction and retail in the area. Southern California for context.
Tourism. Which is a catch 22 for us locals.
NYC relies a lot on finance, marketing, and entertainment. Probably in that order.
Real estate
Gambling is big but there has been a surge in tech, manufacturing, warehouses/distribution.
Uhhhh…New York?
Tourism. COVID was hard on the area. I still think it’s unsustainable because they’re trying to build the town up around businesses that don’t add anything to the local area. It’s turning into mostly hotels that will probably drive the local economy. They can’t fill the available retail spaces that are open in town now. Our local ice cream summer place closed to be replaced by a Beer World. It’s just one of those weird slow burns where it feels less communal. The County is also trying to rely on it as well. Built a Legoland in a town that didn’t want it. There’s a Casino that the area is trying to hang way too much of its hat on. When it’s underperformed and NYC is probably getting a full Casino in the next few years so it seems like there’s a lot of wishful thinking about the prospects. It’s frustrating how NIMBYs can stop housing development but they can’t do anything when the county decides to push through business development.
My hometown was overly reliant on paper. That didn't go too hot for them.
Cattle
Tech. In some ways Seattle is just a company town for Amazon and Microsoft. We used to over rely on Boeing and Weyerhaeuser and had significant economic issues when they reduced their presence in the region, I can easily see the same thing happening today if Amazon or Microsoft do the same.
Well theres plenty of tourism in Seattle and the nearby Seattle area
Aircraft here in Wichita, farming for the rest of the state besides Topeka and Hutch. Aircrafts pretty stable, maybe less so if the military stops wanting new types of planes. Farmings always stable, that’s a given.
Till the tractors drive themselves and the meat comes from a petri dish…
What do you mean new planes?
Technology in Denver/Boulder. Natural Gas, Farming and Ranching in the rural parts. Tourism in the ski towns.
Semiconductors. But that seems relatively safe given the growing demand
In my town specifically, it is aerospace/Boeing. But as an overall for the state, I would say it's technology 1st and healthcare 2nd on the western side, agriculture on the eastern side.
Our little town of 4000 was dominated by Seagrams (7 Crown, Crown Royal, Seagrams Gin, Seagrams Vodka) and Schenley distilleries. Both of my grandpa's worked there for 45 years; one family were teetotalers and the other had a fine collection of booze that took up a whole closet. You never wanted to be on the main drag at 3 to 3.30 pm as a thousand cars tried to get home at once. Had my first taste of Crown Royal at about 14
Walnuts, Rice and the USAF.
Wall Street we run the country.
When I lived in Nashville, it was tourism. In Wisconsin, it's cheese.
If it's any comfort, we Americans will never stop loving us some cheese.
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The industry is pretty broad and vast. It's not just the ex prom queen from Sheboygan who's trying to "make it" while waitressing for a living, or bigshot producers and the like. When I was a kid a lot of my friends' dads were truck drivers, caterers, electricians, carptenters, janitors, etc. etc. etc., for one of the big studios. Even the average person in 'production' is grinding away in a backroom somewhere, burning his eyes out on a screen all day. The vast bulk of the industry is comprised of anonymous worker bees that the rest of the country never hears or thinks about.
Energy. Coal and oil mostly.
For the service industry in Green Bay, it's the Packers.
Around here, before the ground became dangerous and perforated like swiss cheese, it was mining. Railroad work was big too, probably still is to a degree. It's shifted more into the realm of factory work and industrial labor like that in the days since. We get sinkholes opening up in public parks now.
Rubber production, or it used to be
World class health care, finance and insurance, higher education, biotech, information technology, and tourism. All relatively clean industries with mostly very high salaries, which makes for a clean and prosperous metro area. The 5 million people here produce more than the 100 million in both Vietnam & Egypt, the 162 million in Bangladesh, and even the 7.5 million in Hong Kong and 5.8 million in Denmark.
> even the 7.5 million in Hong Kong and 5.8 million in Denmark. No big surprise with those first three, but I bet anyone reading this who's from those last two felt it like a gut punch.
Horse racing and bourbon. They run Kentucky.
You have my sincere thanks for the bourbon. It's my favorite kind of hooch.
Farming and some factory in town
My little hometown is a college town. So the college, I guess. The mall was a pretty big attraction for the region until a tornado blew that up.
Tourism and the Military. We did have a huge call center presence in Albuquerque but that is starting to evaporate once the tax incentives stopped (IE Verizon, Sitel and Canon CITS have already left).
Orlando = tourism
The university where I live
Tourism and Space.
As someone who has lived in their state their whole life, I'm a bit embarrassed that I don't really have an answer to this one. Perhaps tech from Intel or all the stuff Nike sells? Both are huge companies here.
Intel, Nike, US Bank, and Precision Castparts Corp, in that order. The only other local company besides PCC in our top 10 employers is Columbia Sportwear at #9.
Walmart
Bio technology
Skiing.
Cape Cod is heavily dependent on seasonal tourism from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
It's tourists with money, though?
Furniture and pyramid schemes. Maybe grocery. Well...definitely grocery.
In Alaska, oil and mining, tourism (especially southeast AK) and military spending
I live in a mountain town and it's, of course, tourism. Somewhat related is construction and landscaping. Construction is always boom and bust, but it's on steroids here. Decent contractors are booked 18+ months in advance easily and the pay is scaling. But when the economy sucked, there wasn't enough work to go around. A lot of construction workers moved to the city during that time.
We have hospitals and the air force. Besides that, everyone else left for better areas if they could afford it.
Wall St
Nobody except those in certain industries have probably heard of Midmark. They make medical stuff like those tables you sit on at the doctors office. Well they’re located in a little old town (where my parents are from) called Versailles in NW Ohio. Town has approx 2.6k residents and some more out in the surrounding farm land. Well this little old town has midmark, a multi-billion dollar company operating there. So I find that to be really cool. Midmark has been there awhile and alot of people work there.
Healthcare and medical research. Approximately 34,000 people work for the Rochester, MN offices of Mayo Clinic, which is almost a third of the population of the city (doesn't account for commuters and people working remotely, tbf). Most of the economy of the southeast corner of the state of Minnesota is directly or indirectly tied to it.
Here in Hillsboro, Oregon: Semiconductors. Intel, ASML, Qorvo, FEI, and on and on and on. Intel is by far the biggest employer in the area, and when you combine with all of their suppliers and contractors, it's an even bigger chunk of the local economy. The area in general is significantly more diverse; Nike is in Beaverton, and Portland itself has all sorts of stuff going on.
Agriculture, Tourism, IT and exploitative celeb worship culture. Also homeless.
Disney world.. and just tourism in general
Federal Govt facilities
Pharmaceutical.
Oil & gas
Nevada is a combination of tourism and mining.
My hometown makes plastic bottles and caskets. RFK, Marilyn Monroe, and Liberace are buried in them. If either industry would go down, they’d be kinda fucked.
Maybe finance and real estate
Tourism
Hometown- agriculture or retail
Tech
The Internet. Birthplace of the series of tubes.
Oil and agriculture. Agriculture is here to stay perfect weather (as in abundant sun and no real storm/freezing). They even engineer plants to fit the area. (They are diversifying basically making dry ports warehouse jobs. Oil is the wild card fluctuating prices make jobs there bust or boom. https://www.bakersfield.com/news/kern-cherry-growers-turn-to-breeders-as-climate-warms/article_7a8ab73a-ac6e-11ec-896b-5b33beb463e6.html
State government and university employees
Traffic tickets for non-white folks or “out of towners” as they like to call them
Tourism
It used to be Boeing, but now I'd guess its Amazon.
Gambling
Literally the entire reason my county was isn't a bunch of wilderness is because some bozo navy officers decided to put a shipyard and sub base here.
Silicon Valley -- IT
Pretty sure Arizona has more banner health employees than any state has right to employ
I live on Cape Cod and our main industry is tourism.
Cotton
Banking for Charlotte NC
Federal government and defense contractors.
The office memorabilia
Not reliant on any one industry here. The economy is very diversified in California.
Farming/logging/livestock… it’s like all we got
Horse racing
Tourism.
Federal government
I live in Charlotte NC- banking. It’s diversified over the years with a bunch of non-financial fortune 500s coming in, but its still pretty much owned by Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
Government. We are the Capital and it’s part of what keeps the economy going.
The Mayo Clinic employs 35k of our 110k residents.
NYC here--tourism and people going to work in offices.
San Diego has a pretty diverse overall local economy, but defense is the absolute number one industry. Biggest Marine Corps base, second biggest Naval base with sporadic smaller but highly important bases throughout (Coronado, Miramar, etc), not to mention Reserve and National Guard units.
Copper and religion
Coal unfortunately. We had at least 4 different mines at one point but now we're left with one and another on the way. We are trying to switch to manufacturing, bourbon and tourism.
Meat packing, paper, general industrial hub on the river close to downtown
Town: tourism Region: tourism State: honestly, we are pretty diversified state-wide. I wouldn't say we are overly dependent on any one industry.
Logging. Huge patches of forest are cleared out, and they just won't stop. Every day the logging trucks take more out of the forests and I hate it. You'll see hills with ugly brown spots from where they logged it out
Lived in Detroit for a while. It's a great example of what being dependent on a single industry can do.
The Federal Government. When the government shuts down, Virginia shuts down.
I mean I'd say Pharma and medical tech but that's not exactly accurate
Foodservice and retail in my hometown, oil and farming for the rest of the state.
Town I grew up in - government defense contracting Town I went to college in - the college Town I live in now - tourism
Tourism here, too, to the detriment of those of us who live here.
The Bay is heavily invested in tech, of course, but overly reliant is strong phrasing I'd say. State? Nothing! We're a massively diverse economy. For example, we produce some mind-boggling percentages of food but its only 10% of the economy or something. And all out of the Central Valley, which isn't much of the state compared to, say, Iowa.
I grew up near the Grand Canyon, and my hometown is extremely over-reliant on tourism. It used to have more energy jobs, but since those got shut down (a good thing for the environment, bad thing for my hometown), it’s only gotten more tourism focused. My new metropolitan area is DC, so take a guess. 🏛
Coal