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• Author: Rubinstein, Nora J.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

I am deeply impressed by Richard Florida's comprehensive, even-handed, well-researched article, "Creative Class War" (January/February). I have only one quibble: He has neglected one sub-category of creative-class migration--the movement of some of the intelligentsia outside of certain urban centers. The growth of areas like Columbia County in New York State and the southwest corridor of "Vermont around Manchester and Bennington, with all the second home development and tech-commuter communities, suggests that there may be a dispersion of the intellectual and economic elite to these regions outside of the cities. In any case, I am most grateful for this piece and send my kudos to the author and to The Washington Monthly for publishing such high-level journalism.

Nora J. Rubinstein, Ph.D.

Middletown Springs, Vt.

Richard Florida replies:I agree with Ms. Rubinstein, and, in the context of my book, The Rise of the Creative...