Lack of loyalty can't be attributed to loose laws during the recession,
because it's much older than 2007+. For how long is it uncommon that somebody
stays for dozen years in the same company?
I must really be an outlier then. I was with the same company for 25+ years before being laid off. Because the job market for electronics engineers is so bad where I live, I've chosen to semi-retire and look around to see what I might do bring in income which doesn't involve a W2 job.
If by "some states" you mean "some (most?) parts of the Western world".