re: Speaking of California, this is accurate, correct?

My cousin moved to Sacramento about 10 years ago and started his own business. He is doing really well. He told me last week while he was in visiting that if a young man moves to California and works hard the sky is the limit. You can get crazy rich.

Generally speaking, Cali's economy has tended to be 3-5 years ahead of the rest of the country (La's tends to be 3-5 years behind the rest of the country, shocker). It's not a driver in this but would rather be an indicator.

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America's a-hole, Louisiana. A shite stain of a state that nobody gives a dann about.

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That’s also a bit deceptive. California has also had the highest net out-migration - by far - within the U.S. over this century. Far higher than even Illinois, New York, Michigan, and the like.
This is for 2017 only, and I the spreadsheet was a pain, bu my calculations, California has the 3rd most TOTAL net migration out behind New York and Illinois; however, as a percentage of it's inward migration it's is 8th behind Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Wyoming.

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That would make sense as the latter half of this decade has been pretty good to the tech industry, but net out-migration was about 3X as high from California as it was from any other state.

California has the envious position of the largest port of entry for immigration in the country (both legal and illegal), so it's been able to maintain a somewhat stable taxpayer base, unlike, say, Illinois. Otherwise, the state would be fricked ten ways to Sunday, much like Illinois, Louisiana, Connecticut, and so forth are.