re: Southern states continue to dominate in domestic migration

I used to think this was organic and due to blue states turning into piles of shite, but it feels more like a concerted effort to make red states as shitty as blue states.

Communist misery reuqires company.

I guess that our economy working like a pyramid scheme means population growth is seen as a good thing.

I have a home in Pensacola, Florida that I may retire too one day.

The population boom around Pensacola seems to mean traffic jams and hardly a spot of forest or cotton field that isn't new tract houses, Dollar Generals and strip malls. However, none of friends with businesses in Pensacola are all that upbeat on opportunities booming as the amount of struggling paycheck to paycheck people double.

I currently work and live in Brooklyn NY. Just from a common sense perspective, the best way Brooklyn could improve would be enough population loss to lower rent a bit and perhaps keep private equity firms from stumbling over themselves to buy up every available building in the city.

Unfortunately it won't be long until you're living in South Jersey at the rate they're moving there.

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but most are republicans who can’t take living in those blue states anymore.

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I sure hope this is the case because the first time i see a protest against immigration etcc...down here and they start asking where you from and 80% are from those shite hole liberal states then there is an issue.

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I sure hope this is the case because the first time i see a protest against immigration etcc...down here and they start asking where you from and 80% are from those shite hole liberal states then there is an issue.

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That's exactly what you see here. All the ICE protests here have been the progressive California and Washington transplants that live in the North End.

Almost 100% older white women.

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Top Gainers: North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina, and Alabama were top gainers.

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Why do you think that is?

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many reasons, but a big one is that the state has an income tax

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The bad news is they are mostly blue voters from other states.

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I don’t think this is universally true. I moved to the Florida panhandle during Covid, and so did the majority of the people that I’ve gotten to know since that time.

We came from all over. Texas, California, Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, etc.. We’ve got people from Philly. The couple next-door to me retired from NYC.

I would tell you the vast majority of these people are not liberal in any sense. They may not be as right wing as your traditional southern voters, but they’re not blue voters either.

My buddy who grew up in Orange County, CA - in addition to being the best golfer I’ve ever been friends with- may actually be the most right wing guy that I know. My boy Freddie from Philly seems to have very much adopted southern culture. His daughter is now going to Alabama, and he likes to hunt.

I think a lot of these people are escaping situations and leaving the blue voters behind.

From a voter proportion standpoint, this is going to massively benefit the south on the national landscape. Governor, Senate, and presidential elections will still go red, and these states will have significantly more weight, and soon be more important than their northern counter reports.

California lost 230,000 in one year. They will be losing a congressional seat every 4 years at that rate and some red state will be gaining it. Also, the top 10 states with the highest fertility rates are all red states. The bottom 10 are all blue states. Combine migration and birth rates for blue states and the picture isn’t good for them.