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2017-12-28 Economy

Mass Exodus: Hundreds of Thousands Fled These Deep Blue States In 2017

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-28 14:01|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#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|| 2017-12-28 14:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-12-28 14:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-12-28 14:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Metastasis

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-28 14:50|| 2017-12-28 14:50|| Front Page Top

#5 They clusterbomb the countryside with ignorance and malice.

Posted by newc 2017-12-28 15:26|| 2017-12-28 15:26|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-12-28 15:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-12-28 17:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-12-28 18:20|| Front Page Top

#9 ...tell that to the indigenous conservatives in Colorado.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2017-12-28 19:58|| 2017-12-28 19:58|| Front Page Top

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