The Great Resorting Is Here
This week, the incoming Mayor of New York City Eric Adams – the supposed rational corrective to uber-radical outgoing Mayor Bill De Blasio — announced that he would allow legislation to proceed allowing local voting for 800,000 non-citizens. The same week, the legislature in California took up a bill that would establish single-payer healthcare in the state, paying for the increase in costs by essentially doubling taxes.
Americans have been fleeing the most liberal states in mass numbers. Those numbers are about to increase even more.
Between July 2020 and July 2021, approximately 352,1985 residents of New York State embarked for warmer climes. Over that same period, the District of Columbia lost 2.9 percent of its population. California lost 367,299 people via net domestic migration. Illinois, another failing blue state, saw a net domestic out-migration of 122,460 people.
Where did all these blue state refugees go? To red states, of course. Texas picked up 170,307 Americans migrating from other areas. Florida picked up 220,890 people. Arizona picked up 93,026. Idaho had the fastest annual population increase in the nation.
The only region of the country to gain population was the South, which now holds 38.3 percent of the total population of the country – and which picked up 657,682 Americans migrating from different areas. The Northeast is now the least populous region in the United States, and saw a net population decrease of 365,795 residents. All net increase in population in the West was due to births and international migration, not domestic moves.
It’s not just individuals – it’s companies. Facebook’s parent company, Meta,
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