Filled moving vans are leaving California for Texas but quite a few are empty on the return trip
Posted on 04/06/2016 7:23:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
California Exodus: One can make only so many jokes about the Golden State becoming the Tarnished State. But California has done nothing to change the climate causing the decline. People are still leaving in swarms.
Red Texas is, of course, the primary destination for those fleeing blue California. And the evacuation has nearly reached a 10-year high: According to Internal Revenue Service data, 33,626 Californians quit their state for Texas in 2013 and 2014, out of the 250,000 who left the state.
“The number of returns showing address changes from California to Texas hasn’t been this high since the period 2006-07,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday. “During that period, 34,078 returns were filed showing address changes to Texas.”
At the same time, only 21,391 Texans made the reverse trip.
These sobering numbers are backed up by U-Haul rates that show the demand for moving vans leaving California for Texas is much higher than the demand for vans heading in the opposite direction. (See chart.)
Not only is California losing its human capital, it’s also being drained of its businesses. Carl’s Jr. is leading the most recent wave out of the state. Two years ago it was Toyota, which said it was relocating “substantial parts” of its U.S. headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to suburban Dallas. In the last decade, as many as 9,000 businesses have fled the state.
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I wish Texas could control immigration - from the U.S.!!!
Texas needs a wall on its western border as well as the southern one...
Don’t Californicate Texas!
Califorrrnniiaaaa, tumbles into the sea, that’ll be the day I go, back to Annandale
The problem is that some of the liberal riff-raff will follow them from California to Texas...
They came and ruined Austin- made it even more liberal and expensive. I haven’t changed my screen name but I moved to the Hill Country several years ago. I doubt they would move to my neck of the woods- no Starbucks for fifty miles.
As a native Texan, I have always prided myself on the state’s
“friendliness.” Its time to start being rude to new out-of-staters.
I wonder what the average IQ of California is these days? I bet she is a droppin’
You Texican are about to become Texifornians.
Enjoy what little time you have left as a “conservative” state.
Between the California immigration, Hispanics, and internecine Republican wars I’ve read where some experts believe Texas will be a purple state in less than 10 years.
Just keep the folks from Cali from getting into state politics and you’ll be fine. Once they do then oh oh!
Donald, is that you...’cuz I was smokin with the boys upstairs?
I believe you are correct.
Geologically the trend is continued uplift. Politically, it’s disaster.
Unfortunately, many of them leaving California for other states didn’t learn a thing about what is destroying California and instead want to recreate the liberal mess they left behind. Colorado is a prime example of a once red state that has turned blue.
Time to send the Rangers to guard the incoming highways!
Yah, it’s Walter here. *grin*
With baseball bats?
“Unfortunately, many of them leaving California for other states didn’t learn a thing about what is destroying California and instead want to recreate the liberal mess they left behind. Colorado is a prime example of a once red state that has turned blue.”
One of the more common complaints I heard when I lived in Utah about 20 years ago was that all the recent immigrants from California were trying to recreate the mess they had left behind when they moved.
It happened in Colorado
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