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.
it is a lie that those liberal hell holes contain any economic opportunity whatsoever
Clintoid people from MD may be the ones giving McAwful the lead in VA’s governor’s race on Nov. 5.
Part of this is that liberals are puzzled, as to why somebody would want to move to Texas. They think that New York is a slice of heaven on earth. Why would anybody abandon Manhattan for Dallas or Houston, goes through the minds of liberals.
Been to Texas.
Been to New York.
I’ll take Texas.
With no hesitation.
And - if one needs additional encouragement, think of what’s in line for NYC after the dorks there elect that sub-moronic liberal limpwrist as mayor.
Huh? Moving from New York to Texas is moving towards economic opportunity. It's not like your moving to the barren wastelands of North Dakota.... oh, high paying jobs there too?
Texas needs to worry about the number of liberals smart enough to flee their home states mess but not smart enough to realize their very own voting habits are what caused the mess in the first place.
a liberal will always be a liberal and they will always vote for the liberal and then be confused as to why the area they moved to when to shyt...
Typical liberal cannot comprehend the notion of “cost of living” in conjunction with per capita income. Who is educating these people...oh, never mind.....
Anyone know where the really conservative areas of Texas and/or Arizona are?
Sick of liberals and seeking to move to bedrock America....
Yeah, but they are driving up mine.
Central and east Texas.
The valley and the inner cities of Houston, Dallas, SA, and Austin are liberal. Any place outside the larger cities in conservative.
If you’re considering Texas, be sure and do your diligence regarding property taxes....areas vary greatly there.
Will Texas and Arizona be conservative after amnesty? Just asking. I don’t think the GOP gets it. Amnesty will push the nation left just as obamacare will.
I'd have to sell my guns, for what? To pay nearly 9% sales tax and triple my property tax bill? The place is run by leftists, the weather is mostly miserable and the traffic sucks.
Nearly all of those I know who remain would love to leave, but are tied by family and career issues.
I used to call on businesses in Upstate New York and would find that annually about 10% of my contacts would relocate to the Carolinas.
No doubt the reason North Carolina has become so blue at this point.
It’s really just the demographic trend.
States like NY, Cali, Md, etc are so overwhelmingly Dem that they can export a lot of liberals to their neighbors and still remain solidly in the D column themselves.
Az, Nev, NM, Colo, NC, Va, etc.
I left Maryland 7 years ago for Indian River County, Florida and haven’t looked back. I listen to my friends still there whine and complain about O’Malley, taxes,fees and the corrupt system but they still stay there and continue to feed the beast. I’ll never, ever return there to live.
I hope they card-check these people at the border for political affiliation, and reject the libtards from spreading their cancer. (if it were actually possible)
We are looking at Kentucky who won’t tax my Husbands military retirement. South Carolina is a great state to live in but after paying thousands in taxes last year on his retirement benefits, we are looking to move to a state where our money goes further.
Now if we could only sell our house.......
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