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.
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Ahh, Shucks, will ya quit yer whinin’. Texas may currently be gittin’ the largest number of people moving from Californie but Warshinton is not far behind and we are a much smaller state, 7 million as compared to 27 million. As of 2012 only 47% of those who live here were actually born here. In 2012 61% of those who live in Texas were born in Texas. In 2012 8% of those living in Washington were born in California and 3% of those living in Texas were born in California. I doubt whether the percentages have changed much since then.
I personally was very surprised to find that only 8% of the population in Washington was born in California. It seems like many, many more. Heck 2% of our population is made up of Texans, which is about the same as Idahoans which is an adjoining state. But we love our Texans and we ain’t given them or our Idahoans back. But we are more than happy to send you our liberal Californians and Oregonians however
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/upshot/mapping-migration-in-the-united-states-since-1900.html
Good thing the 'burbs are fighting off the Californicators. Valley Ranch still votes Republican by 3 to 1, if not more.
You got me, what’s that from? Sounds Cole Porter-ish.
Ah, Warren Zevon. I liked his Top 40 stuff, need to listen more deeply.
Austin started going south back in the early 70’s and it wasn’t from migration. Every dope smoker in Texas thought that was the place to be. When they got older they went to work for the state and there’s where the real trouble started. 1971 Hippy Hollow was a huge attraction for the young and dumb.
We Honeymooned in California but are thinking of not going back because most of the cheap nice restaurants will be closing.
Locusts from californica, trying to destroy yet another state with their destructive, leftist beliefs.
Gee, thanks! :)
I’m not surprised that you don’t have more Californians. Why flee a liberal hellhole for another one?
After I moved to Austin from Chicago in 1994, I really enjoyed it for a while- in comparison it was great. I know what you mean about State employees.
We confine them to the leftist loony tunes land of Austin, where they can exact their damage by whiney little protestations during our legislative sessions (like throwing urine and feces at legislators, and emitting satanic chants.)
“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.”
Just keep quiet about how wonderful Kansas is.
“It happened in Colorado”... The liberal political equivalent of “slash and burn” farming. When the soil is ruined and can no longer support crops, the farmers move and do it all over again. Liberals ALWAYS foul their nest… then after ruining the economic/social environment (they don’t care about that environment) they seek another nest to foul. Build a wall and make Jerry Brown pay for it!
They ruin their state and want to export the destruction to everyone else. They can’t figure out that if they take over and believe and do the same things in a different state soon that one will become unlivable too. Rather then change they move and do and act the same way as ruined the other state which is the definition of insanity. Too bad others are caught in their evil, nasty webs.
We are still getting far more proportionally to our population size than Texas.
I don't know what actual the statistics on this are, but when I was growing up, Seattle was liberal, but the rest of the state was mostly conservative. This is especially true where my dad's family was from in Eastern Washington.
It is still largely this way today, but currently over 4.6 million people live in the “Seattle Metro” area, which is the Puget Sound Region from Olympia to Everett. This is a typical West Coast liberal urban area where most Californians and our very large immigrant population congregate. The Seattle Metro area currently outnumbers the rest of the state by 2 to 1 population wise.
Don't really know much about SA, but I'd cross Dallas off the list It has been taken over by Gibmsmedats. Fort Worth is still OK though.
They re-elected John Wiley Price, who most likely is going to be headed to jail.
Believe or not many winter there, it gets cold in East Texas during winter.
Sad, though they swear and declare they dislike everything about California that made them move, they quickly try to create the same conditions they left.
The prune pickers just cant help themselves.
The local realtors all have "busted dreams" sales. Some pretty good deals...what am I saying? They're horrible. Awful places. You wouldn't want to live there...
Raising the minimum wage will make this worse.
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