This may be a shock to you, but California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas have small businesses and rural areas, too.
And GitHub accounts are not a particularly good proxy for "all developers." Many, many developers work in non-tech companies doing line-of-business software that will never see the outside of the building.
It may still be true that a majority of US developers live in those states, but that does not at all mean that political and societal shifts that affect developers are only something that happens on the coasts. (Hell, Texas isn't even on the East or West Coast—and I've literally never seen anyone talk about "coastal" people in that context and mean "Gulf Coast".)
And all of that is before even addressing your attempt to imply that not having a software startup that's comparable to two of the most influential recent startups is in some way indicative that an area's tech worker population isn't worth considering. That's on par with people thinking Apple is "doomed" because it doesn't come out with a new product as revolutionary as the iPhone every year. "Not the absolute top of the top" is not the same as "totally unworthy of attention".
And GitHub accounts are not a particularly good proxy for "all developers." Many, many developers work in non-tech companies doing line-of-business software that will never see the outside of the building.
It may still be true that a majority of US developers live in those states, but that does not at all mean that political and societal shifts that affect developers are only something that happens on the coasts. (Hell, Texas isn't even on the East or West Coast—and I've literally never seen anyone talk about "coastal" people in that context and mean "Gulf Coast".)
And all of that is before even addressing your attempt to imply that not having a software startup that's comparable to two of the most influential recent startups is in some way indicative that an area's tech worker population isn't worth considering. That's on par with people thinking Apple is "doomed" because it doesn't come out with a new product as revolutionary as the iPhone every year. "Not the absolute top of the top" is not the same as "totally unworthy of attention".