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| Mass Exodus: Hundreds of Thousands Fled These Deep Blue States In 2017 |
| 2017-12-28 |
| [Western Journal] Three Democrat-leaning states hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of people in 2016 and 2017 as crime, high taxes and, in some cases, crummy weather had residents seeking greener pastures elsewhere. The exodus of residents was most pronounced in New York, which saw about 190,000 people leave the state between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last week. New York’s domestic out-migration during that time period was about the same as it was in the same time 2015 and 2016. Since 2010, the state’s outflow of just over 1 million residents has exceeded that of every other state, both in absolute terms and as a share of population, according to the free-market think tank Empire Center. Despite the massive domestic out-migration flow, New York’s net population grew slightly, largely due to high levels of international immigration and a so-called "natural increase" ‐ the difference between births and deaths in a given year. New York’s net migration was about minus 60,000 residents, but the state had 73,000 more births than deaths, resulting in a net population growth of about 13,000. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 ...tell that to the indigenous conservatives in Colorado. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2017-12-28 19:58 |
| #8 Before you call them locust consider that many are probably conservatives that have had enough living in occupied territory. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-12-28 18:20 |
| #7 Like the plague. First you kill the fleas before you kill the rats otherwise the fleas simply find new hosts. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2017-12-28 17:22 |
| #6 some red states also losing population WY and W VA have lost population both due to natural gas replacing coal in power generation |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-12-28 15:47 |
| #5 They clusterbomb the countryside with ignorance and malice. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-12-28 15:26 |
| #4 Metastasis |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-28 14:50 |
| #3 Locus effect. They move on from the destroyed land to new fertile land with no knowledge of what they did that caused the destruction in the first place and will do it again to the new land. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-12-28 14:27 |
| #2 But the stupid jerks bring all their toxic politics and ideologies with them and screw over their new states. New Hampshire is going this way as is North Carolina and I don't know how Texas will hold out. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-12-28 14:09 |
| #1 Long beset by twin budget and pension crises and the erosion of its tax base, Illinois lost so many residents that it dropped from the fifth to the sixth-most populous state in 2017, losing its previous spot to Pennsylvania. Unexpectedly! California was the third deep blue state to experience significant domestic out-migration between July 2016 and July 2017, and it couldn’t blame the outflow on retirees searching for a more agreeable climate. About 138,000 residents left the state during that time period, second only to New York. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-12-28 14:07 |