Minorities flee Blue states for Red state opportunities

 Just the News:

Data from the 2020 census confirms a population shift that reflects "the decade's broad population shifts: slow growth in the Northeast and Midwest, and gains in the South and some Western states."

The last decade's interstate migration shift also indicated that states with higher taxes and less opportunities for job growth lost residents to lower tax states with more job opportunities. 

Population losses or small gains were widespread in the Northeast and Midwest, the 2020 census found, with Florida and Texas receiving the most interstate migrants, gaining 2.4 million and 2 million more people, respectively. 

From 2010 to 2020 three states, Illinois, West Virginia, and Mississippi lost more people than they gained. Illinois and West Virginia each lost a congressional seat, and Illinois lost $6 billion in 2019 due to population losses alone, an analysis of Internal Revenue Service data by the nonprofit Wirepoints website found.

According to census data, many black Americans moved from northern blue states to Georgia, Texas, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. The Brookings Institution suggests reverse migration is a cultural issue, with blacks relocating to communities where they were born or where their families lived before the Great Migration era (1917-1970), when six million people left segregated southern states to pursue jobs in the North.

However, Chuck DeVore, vice president of national initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a former California State Assemblyman, argues that migration is primarily related to economics and employment patterns, meaning states that are less expensive with more jobs will attract residents, whereas states that are more expensive with less jobs will lose them.

After the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, DeVore argues, more jobs were created in low-tax states. Job growth from December 2017 to December 2019 prior to COVID-19 lockdowns hit 4.5% in low-tax states compared to 2.2% in high-tax states, a 107.8% growth rate advantage, DeVore notes. Low-tax states saw manufacturing job growth of 3.5% compared to 1.3% in the high-tax states, a 176.4% CHECK growth rate advantage.

By March 2021, after most governors imposed year-long lockdowns, low-tax states lost 0.02% of their private workforce compared to a 5.1% loss among high-tax states, Bureau of Labor Statistics data revealed.

"Had the high-tax states only lost jobs at the same rate as the low-tax states, there would be 2.2 million more people employed in the private sector in those 23 states," DeVore notes. "Over time, as people move to find work or a better job, those 2.2 million jobs would support about 6 million people."

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It should be obvious that the blue state model is an economic loser, yet liberal Democrats are bitterly clinging to the high tax model as they watch the U-Haul parade out of their states.  If the minorities continue to vote for Democrats in their new home states, they should be deported.