N. Dakota's Prosperity
The chart above shows how North Dakota’s oil boom starting about 2007 (red line in chart) moved the state up by 32 places (from No. 38 to No. 6) in the annual ranking of US states by per-capita personal income (blue bars in chart) between 2006 and 2012.
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