Exactly. Just like Detroit will always be the global epicenter of the automotive industry /s. A lot can change in 50 years.
Maybe this is just a lot of lying with graphics, but it has always bothered me that Colorado has been a tech center on and off for decades, while California is nothing but truck drivers and secretaries. Yet it seems like Colorado is the last place people look for tech talent.
(I don't count the time period when all I knew was Visual Basic and was re-training in another language while job-hunting, because really, that was on me.)