• @tyler
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    72 months ago

    Those are always cherry picked to state whatever the viewer believes. The truth is that states just have lots of people moving between them all the time. The Census bureau states that California has one of the lowest in-migration rates of the whole country, but of course that’s a rate, so it’s a percentage of population. Or you can word it that California has tens of thousands of people moving out of the state since their out-migration rate is also lower than other states.

    Turns out people just move a lot and they like to move where other people already are.

    https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/state-to-state-migration.html

    https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/state-to-state-migration.html

    • mozz
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      42 months ago

      Yeah, I sort of suspected that it might be something like that. Like I say I never really attempted to get to the bottom of it to see if it was even true statistics.