The Nice Blue to Pink State Migration Continues

The migrant border mess is benefiting progressive states like New York, California and Illinois in a single respect: It’s offsetting a few of their inhabitants loss from droves of taxpayers fleeing to lower-cost and low-tax states. That’s one lesson from new Census Bureau state inhabitants information launched this week.

The U.S. inhabitants elevated by 1.6 million between July 2022 and July 2023, with states within the South accounting for about 1.4 million of the expansion. Main the increase have been Texas (473,453), Florida (365,205), Georgia (116,077), South Carolina (90,600) and Tennessee (77,512). Driving their development was migration from different states.