Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City

Journal. Joining me on the show today is Michael Hendricks.

Michael's senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, as well as MI's Director of State and Local Policy.

He writes regularly for City Journal. In his most recent piece, the emerging metropolitan majority, with a question mark,

takes a look at some of the polling that

MI has conducted in cities across the country. I will say this is our first broadcast from our

reopened offices, which is very exciting. So Michael, thanks very much for being here in person

and for joining us on 10 blocks. It's very exciting, especially to be in person in these new offices.

So let's take a look at those poll numbers and discuss some of their implications, which,

as I read them, are pretty far reaching. You've conducted a poll of residents of the 20 fastest growing metropolitan areas in the U.S.

So in addition to New York, L.A. and San Francisco, what were some of the other cities you've looked at?

Right. So we looked at the 20 numerically fastest growing metros.

So that includes some of the big cities, New York, Los Angeles, but it also includes fast-growing

hubs like Austin, Charlotte, Denver.

Miami is also part of this.

So we were really able to get a broad swath of America and America's leading metros.

What this leaves out are maybe some of the Rust Belt metros.

This leaves out some other places,

but it really gives us a good sense of what it's like in these places that are part of the future

of America.

And we wanted to get a sense, what are their concerns, and what are they persuadable on?

And I think that really is what stands out here.

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