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Mapped: The States Americans Are Fleeing—and Moving To
visualcapitalist ^ | 06/16/2026 | Niccolo Conte

Posted on 06/21/2026 4:34:08 PM PDT by know.your.why

Key Takeaways

North Carolina attracted more domestic movers than any other state in 2025, gaining 84,100 residents from elsewhere in the U.S.

California (-229,100) and New York (-137,600) remained the nation’s largest sources of domestic outmigration.

While Sun Belt states still dominated migration gains, several Midwestern states posted positive inflows as affordability pressures spread across previously hot markets.


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To: cableguymn

I brought my conservative votes and cash to Florida, from MN. six years ago. One of the best decisions of my life.


21 posted on 06/21/2026 6:00:04 PM PDT by Fireone (1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: know.your.why

This is the most depressing story I’ve read in decades.


22 posted on 06/21/2026 6:15:05 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: maddog55

This is precisely why we should NOT move any federal departments and agencies out DC. Keep the liberal rot in one contained place and do not spread it. Anyone that thinks moving a federal agency to a conservative place will reform or change it is fooling themselves.


23 posted on 06/21/2026 6:21:42 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: know.your.why

229K out of 39 million, 0.58%. Which means it (negative migration from California), statistically speaking, doesn’t exist.


24 posted on 06/21/2026 6:24:51 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: cableguymn

God Bless You! :)


25 posted on 06/21/2026 6:26:09 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: know.your.why

WOW! Great to see that.

If we can shut off the food supplies to all Blue States from the Red States, we can REALLY get people moving, LOL!


26 posted on 06/21/2026 6:28:52 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Fireone

God Bless You!


27 posted on 06/21/2026 6:31:07 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: FamiliarFace

In the past 4 years I and a few other members of my family & extended family have moved from west central FL to the mountains of NC & north GA. We’ve all had it with the crowding, the traffic, the humid heat and the %#*! palmetto bugs in the sunshine state.


28 posted on 06/21/2026 6:32:14 PM PDT by ph_balanced
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To: know.your.why

Anthony works in the grocery store
Savin’ his pennies for some day
Mama Leone left a note on the door
She said, “Sonny, move out to the country”
Ah but workin’ too hard can give you a heart attack
Ack-ack-ack-ack-ack

You oughta know by now
(You oughta know by now)
Who needs a house out in Hackensack?
Is that all you get for your money?

Billy Joel - Movin’ Out


29 posted on 06/21/2026 6:35:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

And we’re full


30 posted on 06/21/2026 6:43:37 PM PDT by ebshumidors ( !)
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To: Fireone

One of the best decisions of my life.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please don’t say that, we have to warn the northerners how bad Florida really is.

They need to hear about the huge gators and giant pythons eating golfers and people’s pets. The mosquitoes as big as dive bombers that suck every drop of blood out you until only air comes out.

Don’t forget the schools of man-eating tiger sharks that patrol the shoreline when we’re not suffering a toxic red tide with rotting dead fish collecting on the shore.

And in the fresh water there’s the flesh eating amoeba. The ubiquitous water moccasins and gators don’t seem to be affected by the microbes.

Then there are the nests of fire ants that can sting through Kevlar pants if you still have legs after the amoebas. And if that’s not bad enough the only way to control the cockroaches is with a 357 magnum. Just be careful not to open fire on a VW Beetle mistaking it for a roach.

And then there is the weather. The endless hot, humid, sweltering days and the weekly cat 5 hurricanes accompanied by power outages, massive property damage and wide spread looting. And that describing a good year.


31 posted on 06/21/2026 6:54:33 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: know.your.why

Like locusts, libtards move away from the barren wastelands they create and move to next state they’re going to lay to waste.


32 posted on 06/21/2026 6:55:40 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: chickenlips

You made me LOL! So funny but true. FL was on my short list for retirement, but the statewide mass evacuations for a hurricane, the mosquitos and other insects, the alligators, the humidity... yeah, not for me.


33 posted on 06/21/2026 7:08:14 PM PDT by guthunde47
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To: Terry L Smith

Which is worse..our internal or external immigration?


34 posted on 06/21/2026 7:20:24 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: x

They do elect some pukes there.


35 posted on 06/21/2026 7:21:32 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Well, for sure don’t come to Tennessee. It stinks here.”

I lived in Colorado 79-81, that’s when the California invasion started. The once beautiful state of Colorado is a craphole now.


36 posted on 06/21/2026 7:24:44 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: x

More than likely.

We lived in Eastern NC for a few years. Raleigh Durham area.

It’s Eastern or Northen leftist in the big cities.


37 posted on 06/21/2026 7:25:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Don't Even Bother!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

3rd on the list. Stupid people.
😁


38 posted on 06/21/2026 7:27:59 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Don't Even Bother!)
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To: ebshumidors

We definitely are FULL!


39 posted on 06/21/2026 7:39:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: ph_balanced

I totally understand your post. There’s a reason I live where I do, and traffic is one of those reasons. I don’t think I can get used to it. It used to be left for bigger cities like Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. Now, it seems like it’s everywhere.


40 posted on 06/21/2026 8:29:36 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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