Posted on 10/31/2013 7:44:02 AM PDT by amnestynone
Where are Americans moving, and why? Timothy Noah, writing in the Washington Monthly, professes to be puzzled. He points out that people have been moving out of states with high per capita incomes -- Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland -- to states with lower income levels.
“Why are Americans by and large moving away from economic opportunity rather than toward it?” he asks.
Actually, it's not puzzling at all. The movement from high-tax, high-housing-cost states to low-tax, low-housing-cost states has been going on for more than 40 years, as I note in my new book Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics.
Between 1970 and 2010 the population of New York state increased from 18 million to 19 million. In that same period, the population of Texas increased from 11 million to 25 million.
The picture is even starker if you look at major metro areas. The New York metropolitan area, including counties in New Jersey and Connecticut, increased from 17.8 million in 1970 to 19.2 million in 2010 — up 8 percent. During that time the nation grew 52 percent.
In the same period, the four big metro areas in Texas — Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin — grew from 6 million to 15.6 million, a 160 percent increase.
Yes! They screw up their own states and move to fiscally sane states and once there decide they know what is best and that all these wonderful new programs and policies must be implemented to make it just like the home they left. Ignoring the fact that is what screwed up the state they left.
I have a colleague that moved to my small town after taking a job at my place of employment and the first thing he decided was he didn’t like the way the city was run and it was too politically closed for his wild leftist ways, so he sat out to change it by trying to get in good with a few other travelers in the town and started writing blistering columns about the locals and how his way was better. The result backlash and contempt for him and his associates and out right being ignored at the political level. So far he has been unsuccessful in his kook efforts, but as you know commies never stop.
Liberals are like locust, they destroy period anything they touch.
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