It isn't just a place.  It is a frame of mind and a series of newly developing priorities.  Want to know where the smart, young families are moving? Want to know where to career, married couples are moving? Listen!

Perhaps it is because the media elites tend to live in a few cities on the Coasts that they see the world so narrowly.  But serious demographers are seeing that the Heartland (20 key states) is where the action is the future lies.  Let's talk about them.

I just returned from a week on the road.  I went from the Rockies to the Atlantic to see what there is to see in practice opportunities.  There are four lessons and several locations of promise. 

Practices that treat children should pay special attention to this episode on the demographics of pediatrics.  This is about trends, new location sites, and a changing marketplace.