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California Won’t Fall Into The Sea — It’s Moving To Texas Instead
IBD ^ | 04/05/2016

Posted on 04/06/2016 7:23:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

California Exodus: One can make only so many jokes about the Golden State becoming the Tarnished State. But California has done nothing to change the climate causing the decline. People are still leaving in swarms.

Red Texas is, of course, the primary destination for those fleeing blue California. And the evacuation has nearly reached a 10-year high: According to Internal Revenue Service data, 33,626 Californians quit their state for Texas in 2013 and 2014, out of the 250,000 who left the state.

“The number of returns showing address changes from California to Texas hasn’t been this high since the period 2006-07,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday. “During that period, 34,078 returns were filed showing address changes to Texas.”

At the same time, only 21,391 Texans made the reverse trip.

These sobering numbers are backed up by U-Haul rates that show the demand for moving vans leaving California for Texas is much higher than the demand for vans heading in the opposite direction. (See chart.)

Not only is California losing its human capital, it’s also being drained of its businesses. Carl’s Jr. is leading the most recent wave out of the state. Two years ago it was Toyota, which said it was relocating “substantial parts” of its U.S. headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to suburban Dallas. In the last decade, as many as 9,000 businesses have fled the state.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: california; exodus; texas
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Filled moving vans are leaving California for Texas but quite a few are empty on the return trip
1 posted on 04/06/2016 7:23:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I wish Texas could control immigration - from the U.S.!!!


2 posted on 04/06/2016 7:24:34 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: SeekAndFind

Texas needs a wall on its western border as well as the southern one...

Don’t Californicate Texas!


3 posted on 04/06/2016 7:25:46 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Califorrrnniiaaaa, tumbles into the sea, that’ll be the day I go, back to Annandale


4 posted on 04/06/2016 7:26:28 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The problem is that some of the liberal riff-raff will follow them from California to Texas...


5 posted on 04/06/2016 7:27:05 AM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: SeekAndFind

They came and ruined Austin- made it even more liberal and expensive. I haven’t changed my screen name but I moved to the Hill Country several years ago. I doubt they would move to my neck of the woods- no Starbucks for fifty miles.


6 posted on 04/06/2016 7:27:30 AM PDT by austingirl (Cruz 2016)
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To: fwdude

As a native Texan, I have always prided myself on the state’s
“friendliness.” Its time to start being rude to new out-of-staters.


7 posted on 04/06/2016 7:27:38 AM PDT by yetidog
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what the average IQ of California is these days? I bet she is a droppin’


8 posted on 04/06/2016 7:28:33 AM PDT by ghosthost
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To: SeekAndFind

You Texican are about to become Texifornians.

Enjoy what little time you have left as a “conservative” state.


9 posted on 04/06/2016 7:29:01 AM PDT by crz
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To: SeekAndFind

Between the California immigration, Hispanics, and internecine Republican wars I’ve read where some experts believe Texas will be a purple state in less than 10 years.


10 posted on 04/06/2016 7:29:09 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: SeekAndFind

Just keep the folks from Cali from getting into state politics and you’ll be fine. Once they do then oh oh!


11 posted on 04/06/2016 7:29:59 AM PDT by dowcaet
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Donald, is that you...’cuz I was smokin with the boys upstairs?


12 posted on 04/06/2016 7:30:09 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: bigbob

I believe you are correct.


13 posted on 04/06/2016 7:30:50 AM PDT by crz
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To: SeekAndFind

Geologically the trend is continued uplift. Politically, it’s disaster.


14 posted on 04/06/2016 7:30:53 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: SeekAndFind

Unfortunately, many of them leaving California for other states didn’t learn a thing about what is destroying California and instead want to recreate the liberal mess they left behind. Colorado is a prime example of a once red state that has turned blue.


15 posted on 04/06/2016 7:31:06 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: fwdude

Time to send the Rangers to guard the incoming highways!


16 posted on 04/06/2016 7:31:51 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: newfreep

Yah, it’s Walter here. *grin*


17 posted on 04/06/2016 7:35:57 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Mouton

With baseball bats?


18 posted on 04/06/2016 7:37:11 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“Unfortunately, many of them leaving California for other states didn’t learn a thing about what is destroying California and instead want to recreate the liberal mess they left behind. Colorado is a prime example of a once red state that has turned blue.”

One of the more common complaints I heard when I lived in Utah about 20 years ago was that all the recent immigrants from California were trying to recreate the mess they had left behind when they moved.


19 posted on 04/06/2016 7:37:30 AM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: Mouton

It happened in Colorado


20 posted on 04/06/2016 7:38:02 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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