States with most new residents in 2020: Tennessee, Texas and Florida

concerned citizens of America wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Um...Texas is becoming more and more liberal as people from outside the state move in. The HUGE renewable energy industry there will continue to bring in educated liberals. That is NOT a win for Conservatives.

The other two states have older retirees moving there, so that's still a bonus for for Conservatives in those two states, but if Texas ever flips to blue (and that's a real possibility), Republicans will never win another Presidential election.

"Bring in educated liberals. " Not from what I've experienced. Where do you get your science based information Flagpole?

Try these 1) - Silicon Valley companies moving to Texas. Want to guess what political party most of those are?; 2) Huge immigration from China and India. Same question; 3) More Californians moving to Texas. Same question:

The cities in Texas are rapidly growing. Again, what is the politics typically of cities?

Now, Elon Musk is moving there too. Oil is shrinking. Wind and solar is soaring. What kind of politics support that?

History has demonstrated repeatedly that both the GOP and the Dems spend and spend and spend, WAY over our means. There is absolutely zero evidence that the GOP votes to spend less than the Dems. Perhaps spending on different things, but on overall spending the GOP record is probably a bit worse than that of the Dems. Certainly it is not better.

On taxes, the GOP has never shown any interest on paying for our spending levels. The philosophy seems to be "let our grandchildren pay for it." The Dems are demonstrably better at trying to have taxation levels somewhat track spending levels. The philosophy seems to be "we should pay for our own spending."

So, the question is a simple one: Which is better - Spend WAY more than we can afford and let our grandchildren pay for it OR spend WAY more than we can afford and at least try to pay for our own spending?

I couldn't care less about the politics of those leaving the SF Bay Area. I'm conservative, dislike and disagree with most politics here but after grumbling for years that I wanted OUT I got the best of both worlds! The aholes are the ones moving, leaving all this great weather, mountain trails, beaches, the Sierras all to me! I'm retiring this in February and I get to enjoy it all without traffic or crowds. Sayonara sukers and don't come back.

70k people moved out of CA last year, or less than 0.2% of the population. It looks like all the other western states gained people. Overall the only other states that really lost people were in the midwest (not surprising, the weather sucks for half the year and large swaths of it are boring), and northeast (like CA, they have huge income inequality and high cost of living in their cities).

Because of the large and growing Mexican American population.

Kvothe wrote:

https://www.newgeography.com/content/006891-california-loses-70000-residents-2019-2020

70k people moved out of CA last year, or less than 0.2% of the population. It looks like all the other western states gained people. Overall the only other states that really lost people were in the midwest (not surprising, the weather sucks for half the year and large swaths of it are boring), and northeast (like CA, they have huge income inequality and high cost of living in their cities).

I’m sure a lot more than 70K people moved out of CA last year. There was a 70K net reduction in residents, with people moving out and deaths offset by people moving in and new births. The trend line is pretty clear that there is a major shift in people wanting to live in CA.

I’m sure part of it is political and taxes, part is companies relocating to other states, part is a new work from home policy, and also people cashing out at real estate highs and moving to other lower cost of living states.

I really like CA, but I wouldn’t want to live there today. TN, TX and FL all provide some great places to live. They also all have pretty open COVID policies.

we aint gonna take it wrote:

Democrats lose again!!!!

Really, do you know how foolish your troll, "Democrats lose again" looks after the TOTAL beat down the Republicans have taken the past few months.

Any Democrat reading your troll just has to smile at the irony. Any Republican has to cringe reading it. Thanks for the chuckle!

Democrats moving from California to increase democrat strength in other states is very good news for the party. California will stay democrat too.

This is fun.

This will be fun to watch.

Texas might have turned blue before the next election.

The cancer is spreading; or is this a new form of occupation and colonialization?

I love how much you guys freak out over liberal policies and high taxes. I've lived my whole life in the thick of it in northern New Jersey, it's not that bad. Are Texans all a bunch of p*ssies who can't handle any difference from what they're used to? It sounds like you guys would hang yourselves if you lived here like you were all lazy kids who never had a real job.

So many drama queens get drawn into threads like this one.

show pony wrote:

Anecdotal, but we moved to TX in 2020 from the Midwest and I would say 2/3 of the transplants we meet are Republicans who couldn’t stand the taxes in their old states any longer. Yea, the migration is bringing in Democrats too, but I think the numbers still lean red

Exactly the same situation as you. Moved from the Midwest in 2020 to TX.

We love living in Texas and wish we could have been here long ago.

So glad we made this move. Sure hope those that move here, to improve their life, remember why they chose that path in the first place.

mansman wrote:

I love how much you guys freak out over liberal policies and high taxes. I've lived my whole life in the thick of it in northern New Jersey, it's not that bad. Are Texans all a bunch of p*ssies who can't handle any difference from what they're used to? It sounds like you guys would hang yourselves if you lived here like you were all lazy kids who never had a real job.

I'm glad you enjoy North Jersey. Please stay put. I admit that it takes courage to live there, or in the area of its close cousin, Philthydelphia, where walking your dog without a wallet is a life or death decision.

Not a surprise. A lot of my friends from high school and college moved to those states. I personally don't see the appeal of Texas or Florida, but I still live in Ohio so what do I know.

CrispyChicken wrote:

mansman wrote:

I love how much you guys freak out over liberal policies and high taxes. I've lived my whole life in the thick of it in northern New Jersey, it's not that bad. Are Texans all a bunch of p*ssies who can't handle any difference from what they're used to? It sounds like you guys would hang yourselves if you lived here like you were all lazy kids who never had a real job.

I'm glad you enjoy North Jersey. Please stay put. I admit that it takes courage to live there, or in the area of its close cousin, Philthydelphia, where walking your dog without a wallet is a life or death decision.

This probably isn't a ringing endorsement but crime in Philly is ridiculously easy to avoid. It's not some ubiquitous death zone.

Flagpole wrote:

we aint gonna take it wrote:

https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1351312219435360271?s=20

Democrats lose again!!!!

Um...Texas is becoming more and more liberal as people from outside the state move in. The HUGE renewable energy industry there will continue to bring in educated liberals. That is NOT a win for Conservatives.

Agreed. We moved from California, back to Massachusetts now in Texas (we're bi-coastal elite, neighbors really hate us). Our county was once the red firewall against Austin. It's gone blue in 2020 and 2018.

I'm guessing Cruz is going to have a tough time holding onto his senate seat and wouldn't be surprised to see Texas go Blue in 2024.

I’m from OH and have lived in FL a long time. It’s great, but I will say I strongly prefer the West Coast and maybe the Destin area. Central FL defeats the purpose of living in a beach state unless you’re on a horse farm and Southeast FL is not somewhere I’d want to live.

I like both Austin and San Antonio. Dallas/Fort Worth is okay. I wouldn’t want to live in Houston although there are some nice sections.

But I’m okay with people not coming to FL. It’s getting too crowded.

CrispyChicken wrote:

mansman wrote:

I love how much you guys freak out over liberal policies and high taxes. I've lived my whole life in the thick of it in northern New Jersey, it's not that bad. Are Texans all a bunch of p*ssies who can't handle any difference from what they're used to? It sounds like you guys would hang yourselves if you lived here like you were all lazy kids who never had a real job.

I'm glad you enjoy North Jersey. Please stay put. I admit that it takes courage to live there, or in the area of its close cousin, Philthydelphia, where walking your dog without a wallet is a life or death decision.

North Jersey is nowhere near Philadelphia.