Armed with data from 619, 397 US residents, the researchers found that entrepreneurial personalities were most prevalent in the Western and Southern states, with the District of Columbia, Colorado and Utah scoring highest.

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In fact, it corresponds to a decades-old phenomenon related to US internal dynamics, especially to changes in demographics (the relative rise in population of southern and western states such as Texas, California, Oregon which have had traditionally less links with Europe).

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