Just taking an informal Rv sales poll

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
South of Saint Louis Missouri

I did a bad job of defining the area. I should have said

If you draw a line across the country even with St Louis Missouri, the area south of that line and mostly east of the Rockies

The biggest regions I've seen the growth of long-term residents only RV parks is in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. More of those parks the farther south a person goes until about 150 miles from the Gulf Coast. Though I have seen a few in California and Washington State within the past two years.

Yes, some parts of the economy are doing well. But the gap between the population doing well and the population falling closer and closer to poverty is growing.

That is in my opinion where many new RVs are going.

Travel trailers under $40,000 list price, low 30's sale price. I've even seen dealers who deliver new and used purchases to such an RV park. People buying them who do not own a vehicle capable of towing the trailer.

Those small travel trailers under 32 or 33 feet in length appear to be the largest numbers being sold to me.

So you travel the country surveying RV parks checking to see if they are filling with people who have no other place to live? And you apparently check out all the arriving RVs to see if they are being delivered by a dealer rather than being brought in by your average (or I guess in your world, the odd) RV traveler.
BTW, park model trailers are almost always delivered by dealers. They require specialized towing set ups and often pilot cars. Park models are used in place of rental cabins for many people. They are recreational properties, not housing of last resort. Other people site regular RVs seasonally, again as recreational properties. They may very well have the dealer deliver it since they don't intend to move it on a regular basis. Heck, maybe they are going to buy a new tow vehicle and are waiting for the 2019s. Just because a dealer is delivering something does not mean they buyers are otherwise destitute.
You can always find exceptions. Heck, there is no question there are people who are living in their car. Do you make the similar leap that the current record level of auto sales is because more and more people are living in their cars?
As for your newly drawn poverty belt, that area includes cities like Atlanta. Unless something has changed in the last few months, it is hardly a poster city for urban decay. Arkansas and Mississippi have always lagged the nation in income and you can always find pockets of poverty in every state in the union. However, the economic data, as well your own observations (housing prices are rising, everything is more expensive) show that the economy in the US is strong. People who want to work are finding work. If you were to spend as much effort in examining the people who are displaced as you apparently spend trying to find RV parks that are supposedly filling with those displaced people, I think you will find the real reasons for their troubles, and it isn't the current economy.