So many places were utterly devastated by massive real estate bubbles that did huge damage to the country… Tulsa really hasn't had that extreme overhang to work through and now is enjoying some solid recovery via manufacturing and oil and gas.... There are some bright spots, especially if you look at the employment changes by industry—for the last four quarters, you can see that manufacturing has made a real contribution in this recovery. You [metro Tulsa] have a larger-than-average employment concentration in manufacturing ... than the national average.
July 4, 2012, Mark Muro,
Tulsa World