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| 2023-07-18 |
| [POWERLINEBLOG] Jennifer Rubin is a left-wing columnist for the Washington Post. So, naturally, she hates Ron DeSantis. On Friday, she published a column arguing that DeSantis’s conservative policies endanger Florida’s economy. The headline was, "Florida might pay for MAGA cruelty and know-nothingism." Just another objective day at the office at WaPo! Unfortunately, her entire column was based on a grotesque factual error. The centerpiece of Rubin’s piece was this absurd claim: DeSantis likes to brag that more people are moving to Florida than ever. Not so fast. ‘An estimated 674,740 people reported that their permanent address changed from Florida to another state in 2021.’ That’s more than any other state, including New York or California, the two states that have received the most attention for outbound migration during the pandemic, according to the American Community Survey released in June tracking state-by-state migration. This assertion came from a Business Insider article that, when Rubin wrote, had already been corrected. In fact, the exact opposite is true. The Post had to correct Rubin’s error: A previous version of this article mischaracterized Floridians’ state-to-state migration in 2021. According to the Census Bureau, more people moved into Florida than any other state that year. This version has been corrected. This is one of those corrections that destroys the entire point of the original article. The correction implicitly acknowledges that the column never should have been printed in the first place. Both the Post and Ms. Rubin should be embarrassed, but we know from experience that, as a hard-core apparatchik, Rubin doesn’t embarrass easy. But this is the point I want to make: it is truly extraordinary that a left-wing columnist and (presumably) an editor at the Washington Post are living in such a bubble that they are unaware of the fact that Florida, under Ron DeSantis, has become America’s number one boom state. Americans are moving to Florida as fast as they can dump their houses in New York, Illinois, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and Minnesota. This chart, from American Experiment, shows net domestic migration for each state from 2019 through 2022. Florida is on top, with Texas in second place. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Yes. Like David Brooks, Ana Navarro, the token "conservative" of the week on The View, half the alleged Republicans in Congress, on and on... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-18 10:04 |
| #5 Still waiting for Rubin to have an opinion shared by a majority of Republicans. I've been waiting for a long time so far. You have to wonder at what point does the WaPo decide to drop the pretense. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2023-07-18 09:24 |
| #4 Rubin, the Post's Rosa Luxemburg. |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-07-18 08:54 |
| #3 Rubin, a supposed Republican, makes an argument that proves, once again, that her head is full of Grape Nuts. When she sits up to get out of bed in the morning it must sound like Rafiki’s Bakora staff shaking. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-18 08:15 |
| #2 It would have been an easy enough number to verify before going to print. If it got past the reporter, the idea (back in the day) was an editor would catch it before the article went to print. Now, only the "greater truth," which is neither great nor true, matters to the LIE. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-18 06:55 |
| #1 ..." ‘An estimated 674,740 people reported that their permanent address changed from Florida to another state in 2021.’ ... Here in the South we call them "Half Backs" Northerner's that moved to Fla and decided to move 1/2 way back. Most seem to end up in Northern SC ., NC. Plus Western NC is loaded with 1/2 Backs. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-07-18 06:00 |