Posted on 05/02/2022 1:15:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s population shrank for the second year in a row in 2021 as the nation’s most populous state was hit by declining birth rates, higher deaths from the pandemic and fewer people moving into the state from elsewhere in the U.S., officials said Monday.
California lost 117,552 people in 2021, putting its population to 39,185,605, the California Department of Finance said. That’s still the largest state population in the country ahead of second-place Texas.
But after years of steady population growth for California that put it close to having 40 million residents, the state’s population is back to where it was in 2016.
State officials blamed the loss on a declining birth rate for California coupled with an increase in deaths, mostly because of COVID-19.
Also, fewer people are moving to California from other states and state officials have said that federal immigration policies have drastically curtailed the number of people moving to the state from other countries.
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++++higher deaths from the pandemic++++
Ummmm, maybe because of people FLEEING the state? Nah...can’t be.
AP is just trash. Yeah Covid is why CA losing population.
Born and raised in SE Los Angeles county.
I escaped in 1979.
All the good people left.
The people that backfilled it are idiots and just now the few good ones left have figured it out.
All the countries idiots are concentrating together. Let them stay in the pan of water that is slowly heating up.
Not even the Beverly Hillbillies and the Real McCoys want anything to do with sunny Cal-i-forn-eye-a.
Most of them moved here to Texas. The local joke is “Will the last person leaving CA please turn out the lights.”
Isn’t all this “population loss” being more than compensated for by the numbers of “new arrivals” coming over the border shared with Mexico? California already had a highly diverse ethnic makeup from earlier influx of foreign nationals, most of whom had arrived legally, or who were born “anchor babies” over the past several decades.
A sort of Gresham’s Law in in effect here, good productive citizens being driven out by unproductive drones.
All those people must be dying of Covid!
No, they’re dying of taxes. I’m in Nevada, and I personally volunteer to drive as many back to their commie homeland, IF they show their voter card that they’re democrats.
So who’s left? Lotta good Mexican restaurants here.
I wonder how many US citizens are in California, and how may illegal aliens are present.
Of the illegals, how may are from outside the western hemisphere.
Despite the Dems stopping the census count only US citizens, there should be an estimate somewhere.
0bama, the get more illegals then they ever lose
Legal immigrants from Asia are a primary reason Orange County is now Dem.
Nope. Mexican immigration has dropped and there are more people coming from Central America and China these days - many of whom are choosing states other than Cali to settle in.
“hit by declining birth rates” = Abortions.
“higher deaths from the pandemic” = Masks, vax, and depression.
“fewer people moving into the state from elsewhere” = Nope... Everyone is bailing out.
It’s hard to thrive when you live in a sewer.
Indians are a huge deal in Silicon Valley.
Just wondering what the water situation would be not having 2.5-3 million illegals in California? Hummm....
True. I also live in the state (New Jersey) with the highest per capita Indian population in the US - more than one out of five people in my city alone are from India or have Indian parents. They also voted heavily for Murphy in the last election.
Don’t blame the pandemic....
lmao.
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