Call it The Regime Effect: Millions of Americans relocating from blue states to red states.
This from americafirstreport.com.
In some cases, there is simply a desire to be around other like-minded people. In other cases, specific political policies have been enacted which have motivated large numbers of people to relocate.
The manner in which certain states handled the pandemic was partly the cause. However, many are simply escaping the crime, drugs, homelessness, and violence that are plaguing so many major cities in blue states.
For those raising a family, finding a safe environment for their children is often of the utmost importance. As a result, a “mass exodus” to “Red America” is well under way. Vast numbers of people have been moving from blue states such as California, New York, and Illinois to red states such as Florida, Idaho, and Montana…
According to economist Stephen Moore:
[A]pproximately 5 million people have migrated out of Illinois, New York, California, and New Jersey during that past 10 years.
This is one of the biggest mass migrations in American history.
The red state that has gained the most from all of this domestic migration is Florida.
The Sunshine State added a net tally of 819,000 Americans over the 13-quarter period after Covid-19’s arrival. To put that into perspective, in just three years and change, Florida added more people from net domestic migration than the combined populations of Miami and Orlando.
The large-state runner-up: Texas. It added 80 percent as many people as Florida (656,000).
The state that lost the most was California, which shed 1.2 million people through net domestic outmigration—the rough equivalent of San Francisco and Oakland’s combined populations.
The runner-up loser was New York, which lost about three-quarters as many people as California.
Not too long ago, Florida was considered to be a “swing state”—divided almost equally between communists/globalists and republicans.
But now Florida is solidly red.
Many conservatives are attracted to the Sunshine State because there is no state income tax. Of course, the spectacular weather doesn’t hurt either.
According to a real estate company known as “Conservative Move,” large numbers of conservatives have also been relocating to South Carolina.
The group’s founder, Paul Chabot, told Business Insider:
Many of [my] clients are coming from places like California, Washington state, and Oregon.
I really like South Carolina. In fact, in my latest book I ranked it number 3 out of all 50 states.
Further recommendations:
[Stay] away from the coast and the major population centers.
NOTE: In addition to a mass migration from blue states to red states, many people relocating to small towns and rural communities.
According to University of Virginia demographer Hamilton Lombard:
An estimated 291,400 people last year migrated from other areas into America’s small towns and rural areas, which Lombard defines as metropolitan areas with 250,000 people or fewer.
Mid-size cities are also growing, but meanwhile large cities are bleeding residents at a rapid pace.
According to Lombard’s research using U.S. Census Bureau data:
Areas with 250,000 to 1 million people saw a net in-migration of 266,448 people last year, while areas with 1 million to 4 million people recorded only a modest gain.
Areas with more than 4 million people were the big losers, shedding almost 600,000 people last year.
Actually, though, finding an accessible place to escape is becoming more difficult. No where is perfect, and our country—as a whole—is very rapidly heading in the wrong direction.
Final thoughts: Blue states do not offer a high quality of life and most core urban areas whether in Blue or Red states are dangerous at best. Soon there will be nowhere to hide from our growing national problems.
We the People must either turn things around, or even Red states will become more like Blue states—if our beloved country does not break apart before that time.
