“The Pine Tree State has joined West Virginia as the only two to have more people dying annually than being born.”
I also think this is misleading; many states have more AMERICANS dying annually than being born. Here in NJ we had a Dem governor (Corzine) admit over 10 years ago that we’d lost population without factoring in ILLEGAL immigrants.
That statement is correct. The natural population number does not differintate between domestic and international origins. It is merely births and deaths of people residing in a specific state. If you live in one state but happen to die in another it is recorded as your home state as a death.