You'll get no argument from this Low Country boy.
The Census data show:
- Florida, the third-fastest growing state, gained an average 1,090 people a day, bringing its population to 17.4 million. The population estimate covers the period before four major hurricanes battered the state in August and September.
- North Carolina and New Mexico replaced California and Hawaii among the 10 fastest-growing states.
- Nevada was the fastest growing state for the 18th consecutive year.
- Massachusetts lost population for the first time in more than a decade.
- California remained by far the most populous state at 35.9 million. Foreign immigration fueled much of its growth in the past year. But California continues to lose more residents to other states than it gains from the rest of the USA.
- Colorado, long one of the top destinations for people leaving California, lost more people to other states than it gained for the second year in a row. But immigration and births pushed its population up 1.2%, to 4.6 million.
From USAToday