A few years ago, Vermont was the state that was losing young, college-educated folks the fastest. Then they reinvented their economy based on alternative energy and other eco-friendly industries and the trend has changed. Perhaps RI also needs to try a new economic direction.
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I blame the fact that I became an American 15 years ago.. 
But you are correct, I did reverse the ratio and El Salvador is the larger one.
(The grumble grumble thing is that I did look it up, but I made the mistake of looking for sites that compared sizes, got a factoid one)
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Along the same lines, I won’t say that if you dropped RI into LA county you couldn’t find it, I can tell you that if you dropped it in the middle of San Bernardino County you would have trouble finding it.
(LA County 4,752 square miles, San Bernardino County 20,105 square miles)
All the folks dying in Peter Griffin-related [del]accidents[/del] incidents?
The population decline began when Buddy Cianci went to jail. Coincidence? I think not.