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"People Moving from New York Outnumber Arrivals by Nearly Two-to-One, Report Says."
That was a recent Albany Times Union headline highlighting the ongoing mass exodus from deep-blue New York:
United Van Lines reported Tuesday that nearly two-thirds of the moves involving New York households were outbound, a higher proportion than any other state except New Jersey and Illinois. The 2016 National Movers Study by Fenton, Missouri-based United also found that almost 59 percent of the moves within the eastern United States were outbound. Where were people moving? Mostly to western states and the Carolinas... South Dakota had the highest share of inbound moves, at 68 percent.
That exodus pattern isn't limited to the listed states, either. It's broadly endemic to states where liberals govern.
According to economist Stephen Moore, who co-authored the latest annual edition of "Rich States, Poor States," every single one of the ten most liberal states as measured by voting behavior suffered population losses over the last decade:
Of the 10 blue states that Democrats won by the largest percentage margins - California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Connecticut - every single one of them lost domestic migration (excluding immigration) between 2004 and 2014. Nearly 2.75 million more Americans left California and New York than entered those states.
As Moore notes, those states are characterized by such leftist policies as higher taxes, heavier regulation, environmental extremism, labor union favoritism and firearms restrictions.
At the other end of the spectrum, what happened to the ten most conservative states as measured by voting patterns in the 2016 presidential election? Moore notes that every single one of them gained in net population over the past decade.
Employment data tells the same story as population patterns. According to the report, the most conservative states also enjoyed a job creation rate approximately twice as high as the most liberal states.
Liberals and conservatives can debate policy preferences ad infinitum, but the real-world evidence from America's 50 individual laboratories of democracy produces an unequivocal verdict.
People vote with their proverbial feet. So do employers.
Migration Data: Where the Left Governs, Citizens Flee
That was a recent Albany Times Union headline highlighting the ongoing mass exodus from deep-blue New York:
United Van Lines reported Tuesday that nearly two-thirds of the moves involving New York households were outbound, a higher proportion than any other state except New Jersey and Illinois. The 2016 National Movers Study by Fenton, Missouri-based United also found that almost 59 percent of the moves within the eastern United States were outbound. Where were people moving? Mostly to western states and the Carolinas... South Dakota had the highest share of inbound moves, at 68 percent.
That exodus pattern isn't limited to the listed states, either. It's broadly endemic to states where liberals govern.
According to economist Stephen Moore, who co-authored the latest annual edition of "Rich States, Poor States," every single one of the ten most liberal states as measured by voting behavior suffered population losses over the last decade:
Of the 10 blue states that Democrats won by the largest percentage margins - California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Connecticut - every single one of them lost domestic migration (excluding immigration) between 2004 and 2014. Nearly 2.75 million more Americans left California and New York than entered those states.
As Moore notes, those states are characterized by such leftist policies as higher taxes, heavier regulation, environmental extremism, labor union favoritism and firearms restrictions.
At the other end of the spectrum, what happened to the ten most conservative states as measured by voting patterns in the 2016 presidential election? Moore notes that every single one of them gained in net population over the past decade.
Employment data tells the same story as population patterns. According to the report, the most conservative states also enjoyed a job creation rate approximately twice as high as the most liberal states.
Liberals and conservatives can debate policy preferences ad infinitum, but the real-world evidence from America's 50 individual laboratories of democracy produces an unequivocal verdict.
People vote with their proverbial feet. So do employers.
Migration Data: Where the Left Governs, Citizens Flee
