Posted on 08/15/2023 9:03:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Florida and Idaho are America's fastest-growing states, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Their populations increased by 1.9 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively, causing them to rise to 22.2 million and 1.9 million from July 2021 to June 2022.
The two are followed by South Carolina, Texas and South Dakota. While Texas is seeing both a high number of births and high levels of national and international migration, domestic movement of people has been a major factor for Idaho, South Carolina and South Dakota to achieve population growth. In Florida, the state with the largest net birth deficit, it has been even more crucial (while aided by international migration).
As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, over the course of the pandemic, more states started to lose people due to excess deaths and new patterns of out-migration.
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18 U.S. states decreased in population - some only slightly - between the 2021 and 2022, up from ten in between 2018 and 2019.
While states in the West or South had been attractive for new residents since before the pandemic because of low cost of living, low taxes and lower prices of housing, coastal states saw white color workers unmoored from their places of residence by remote work regimen seek out new (and often cheaper) living arrangements. Lower levels of Covid-19 restrictions in the South's or West's red states have also been named as a factor for some to move there.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, New York had been among the states losing population - then due to a decline in immigration that used to make up for people moving away.
Over the course of the pandemic, even more people famously left the state, causing a deficit of -0.9 percent (previously -0.4 percent).
Populous states like California, Pennsylvania and Ohio only started to decrease in population during the pandemic, which coincided with increased population growth in the American South and West.
Texas, which previously grew by 1.3 percent, now increased in population by 1.6 percent - while Florida even stepped up from 1.1 percent to 1.9 percent.
Population winners in the West were Montana (0.8 percent growth to 1.5 percent) and South Dakota (0.7 percent to 1.5 percent).
The U.S. is aging rapidly. That’s why we’re allowing in a lot of immigrants. We don’t want to be like Japan.
Whites better wake up and start reproducing.
Start buying land in rural areas and create co-ops with other white couples.
Have gardens, schools, and teach our kids these values.
Who is this “we”? It’s certainly not Trump, DeSantis, their supporters, Republicans, or Americans at large.
Are you speaking for the Biden regime or the Cheap Labor Express? Or both?
Too late. Unless you move to Utah. Or Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
India is now most populous country in the world, and with younger median age than all other large countries. Curry will make you reproduce LOL.
About a decade ago, some German university sat and did a study with migrants to Germany and reproduction rates...using Turks, Yugoslavs, etc....going back to the 1950s.
End-result? From those who stayed...first-generation always had the same number of kids as their parents from the old country. Second-generation went to two kids usually. Third-generation went to the German standard of 1.3 per couple.
You can blame birth control....women wanting paying jobs...the cost of living, and the housing situation. But it doesn’t matter. Modern society will only survive if migration occurs in some manner. If you ever introduce birth control to poor regions of the globe, then it’ll trigger a massive global problem.
A word to the wise: If you're thinking about moving to SC, good for you. If you're a politically progressive rat, shame on you; leave your radical politics at home. SC is a RED state and damn proud of it. If you're a conservative, welcome. Always room for more.
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i don’t see that as a win for us because it’s mostly progressive yankees who move here in retirement due to weather and lower living costs. Nextdoor digest is almost all yankees here and they complain a lot about christian things in the public square......We should pas a law they retired yankees can only vote by mail-in in the state where they actually worked
The blue state cancer is spreading. This is not good for us.
They are probably still voting in NY and NJ. They will continue to vote after they have met their eternal fate.
Haven’t seen you in a long time, upchuck. Hope all is well.
Whites better wake up and start reproducing.
Start buying land in rural areas and create co-ops with other white couples.
Have gardens, schools, and teach our kids these values.
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