Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia | August 16, 2021
Minorities Fleeing High-Tax, Democrat-Run States for High-Opportunity, Republican-Run Country
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia | August 16, 2021
Many black Americans moved from northern blue states to Georgia, Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.
Data from the 2020 census confirms a population shift that reflects “the decade’s broad population shifts: slow growth in the Northeast and Midwest, and gains in the South and some Western states.”
The last decade’s interstate migration shift also indicated that states with higher taxes and less opportunities for job growth lost residents to lower tax states with more job opportunities.
Population losses or small gains were widespread in the Northeast and Midwest, the 2020 census found, with Florida and Texas receiving the most interstate migrants, gaining 2.4 million and 2 million more people, respectively.
From 2010 to 2020 three states, Illinois, West Virginia, and Mississippi lost more people than they gained. Illinois and West Virginia each lost a congressional seat, and Illinois lost $6 billion in 2019 due to population losses alone, an analysis of Internal Revenue Service data by the nonprofit Wirepoints website found….
(Excerpts from the Virginia Star)