During my life and career I was involved in various aspects of Earth History and Natural Science as work and pastime interests coupled with much more. Among my magazine subscriptions are National Geographic, Discovery and Archaeology.
Interest goes back well over 5 billion years, the Earths birthdate, and progresses forward to the first life, the various categories of time geologically and the changing flora and fauna over millions of years.
Homo Sapiens has a number of predecessor, bipedal, omniverous ancestors dating back hundreds of thousands of years. More recently the humans are mingled with Neanderthals and prior Cro-Magnons. In France the evidence points back 35,000 years to Homo Sapiens. In the USA evidence points to immigrants to the East Coast 19,000 years ago. *( Solutrians - French). On the West Coast 10,000 to 15,000 Years ago. *( Crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia ).
The "neighbor joining" method allows scientists to calculate the different species;
Negroid; Nigerian, Bantu, Bushmen.
Caucasoid; Italian, English, Iranian, Indian, Lapp.
Australoid; Australian Aborigine, New Guinean.
Mongoloid of Asia: Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Polynesian, Malay, Polynsian, Micronsian,
Amerindoid; Eskimo, Brazilian Indian, Alaska Indian.
Fast forward to around 3,500 years ago. Now there is reported archeological finds in Vermont/New Hampshire, a race of people who built stone structures evidently for astrological purposed that trace directly across the Atlantic Ocean to Stonehenge in England !!!!!!!
In Newfoundland there is a Canadian Historical site dating to the Vikings around the year 1000 AD, L'Anse Aux Meadows. And in 1492 Columbus is alleged to have "discovered" America. Then in 1620 the first Pilgrims settled at Plymouth Rock. But it wasn't until 1804-1805 that Lewis & Clark actually explored to the Pacific. Imagine how short a time that was !!!!!!
So the history of the United States is a conglomeration of conquest, immigration, wars, acquisitions, purchases. The native inhabitants were overrun essentially by Europeans, English, Spanish, Russians, Dutch, Swedes, Mexicans and killed, died from diseases, pushed out, overrun, displaced.
So the whole world history is one of emigration, immigration, movements from Continent to Continent. In the past couple of hundred years the USA fought for it's independence from the King of England, then engaged in WW1, WW2, Korea, Iran, Afghanistan. That's the Macro view. The Micro view is movement from state to state couple with massive invasion of foreigners.
BUT - This is happening in many part of the world; Africans moving to Europe, Muslims moving in, Turks invading Germany, people from all over the world moving from the "have not" nations to the "have" nations.
So which are the "best run" states ? And the worst?
The Best ; North Dakota.
The Worst; California.
http://money.msn.com/investing/ameri...rst-run-states
But be careful of these statistics, they change. And may be a little bit misleading. *( I'm sure not moving to North Dakota !)
So where should a retired American move to ? Good question. Is there an answer ?
And what will the USA look like 200 years from now ? Most probably a huge garbage dump, polluted, contaminated, overpopulated probably unrecognizable. And most certainly not full of Caucasians.