re: Map of population changes across the US

I see this as a win yeah. Don’t come here. We can’t fix what we got.

We are leaving Louisiana after 12 years. I thought we would be here for another several years but this is my longest stop since I left Texas in 2002. Spent 4 years in Arizona(Phoenix), 6 in North Carolina(Charlotte), and 12 in Baton Rouge.

We chose Baton Rouge and as much shite as this place gets on here we had a blast and made a lot of good friends here.

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Louisiana was never an industrial state, so they don’t have that excuse to use

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You’re forgetting that a huge part of Louisiana’s identity and economy was being the slave capital of America at one time. New Orleans had the largest slave market in the entire country by the 1850s, if I’m correct.

The economy in Louisiana was always favored to the elitist-planter class while everyone else was poor whites who lived in huts or were indentured servants. That’s how it was and when the Union won the Civil War, Louisiana was never able to adapt and diversify to new industries. The way the culture was set up, a very small group of wealthy aristocrats basically owned the state while everyone else was dirt poor peasants. That’s the way it was then, and that’s the way it is now. And it will never change

If I could only upvote more than once…

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I can explain the demographics of Louisiana: half of the population is poor blacks who live in fatherless households and on welfare. They commit 99% of the violent, drug-related crimes and contribute nothing positive. The other half is low middle-class Cajun people who work service industry jobs like waiting tables, plumbing, HVAV, and commercial fishing. These people never went to college, and do the bare minimum that’s necessary to keep a roof above their heads.

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Similar scenario in Mississippi.

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People are leaving liberal states to frick up conservative states...

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Not sure this is happening....Tennessee for one is seeing a lot of people moving from Illinois, California, and New York and many that I've met are conservatives that are tired of their vote not counting and going to where they do count for something. They are fleeing liberal areas for a reason. Same thing in Arizona, Nevada, and Florida. Most people don't realize that the vast majority of land area in states like California and Illinois are actually heavy republican populations but the state's "blue designation" are carried by a few metro areas.

The next census should be interesting, especially as it related to electoral votes. Possible many blue strong hold states will lose some votes and many red strong hold states and toss up states will gain votes.

Yet, the US Census Bureau had an "accounting error" and NY and CA maintained Congressional seats that they should have lost. Whoopsies! Funny how these errors always slant one way.

Atlanta is the only thing Georgia has going for them. If you never had Atlanta your state would be in the same boat as Mississippi and Louisiana. You already have the top 10 highest poverty rate out of any state in the US

Idaho is getting redder actually. The ones moving here from the west coast are overwhelmingly conservative and escaping the shitshow that is California, Oregon, and Washington.