[Mamzelle]

Not California for outbound? Not Texas for inbound? Something not reliable about this data. At least I hope so. I don’t want these Yankees bringing their stupid socialism to my state...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Michael Stoll, economist, professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy at UCLA says "[the inbound states] may be attractive places to move because of their lower housing costs, more temperate climate, diversified and growing economies, as well as maturing manufacturing bases and high technology clusters.”

LOL. Professor, you have overlooked what is obviously the key factor -- competent governance, sane fiscal policy, and low taxes. Either you are a complete dolt educated beyond your intelligence or you are a die-hard lefty who refuses to face simple, irrefutable facts. People and capital gravitate toward states and nations with good governance and low taxes. The outlier on the destination "states" is Washington DC where fedgov is adding 100 parasites per day to its payroll. Without fedgov and air conditioning, Washington DC is a miserable place to live and work. To call Washington DC a "growing economy" is an insult to all working Americans who believe in limited government.

[theDentist]

A year, 18 months, and I’m leaving this Mass. for NC or SC. Perhaps Fla (sister nd her family moving there in a few more moths). If my brother and family hadn’t been so ill, I never would have returned from Va.

[Just another Joe]

I travel the highways of the Midwest, Ohio to Colorado, North Dakota to Louisiana, extensively.

I can say without qualification that I have never, in my remembered life, seen as many U-Hauls on the road as in the last two years.

I'm not sure where they are all going, but there are a lot of people going somewhere with all their wordly goods packed up.

[Carriage Hill]

I would have bet $10 that Texas was in the “inbound states” column; glad I didn’t. Still surprises me. Yet, I know several couples moving from PA, to NH, despite the liberal hellhole it’s become.

[JohnBrowdie]

DC being the #1 inbound destination — and has been so throughout the obamite reign — is incredibly unhealthy . . . in fact, it may be fatal.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Must be part of a grand plan by the Mule Party to infiltrate and take-over Red States through stealth migration, thereby developing a permanent electoral majority.

[Chode]

DC grows in direct proportion to the number of NEW government suckholes getting jobs...

[grumpygresh]

The United Van Lines users are more likely to be wealthier than the general population as well as taxpayers, so this result is important. The upper Midwestern states need to reduce state income taxes to stem the tide of out-migration. States in the NE and IL are TF squared; they are in the death spiral.

[rightly_dividing]

Play around with this interactive map of people moving, it show exodus from liberal areas to conservative areas mostly:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html

[M1903A1]

Illinois doesn’t surprise me at all...Wisconsin sort of does.

[SuperLuminal]

Bad news! Recieving all these marxist-supporting immigrants from the NE simply dilutes and, eventually, dooms the red state to becoming a mirror image of the originatng blue state.

One solution is to require passports from all marxist states...and never issue any. Sort of like MD does with the concealed-carry license...

OTOH, encourage all private enterprise with no ties to dear leader to emigrate into the red states.