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Originally Posted by Magnum PEI
The charts are labeled State to State Migration. Yes California's population is growing due to international immigration and natural growth, but domestically it's losing population, quite a lot, while similar states (Arizona, Texas) are gaining. I thought this was obvious.
Look at the chart Huldrefolk posted, it shows a net loss of ~3 million people over 18 years.
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You're being sucked in by a major non-issue by someone trying to forward an agenda. Look at the figures across the board, compare them appropriately, and then look at it holistically, and compare those again.
California lost 691,145 of its 39,114,889 population for a loss off
1.7%. That number looks large until you take into consideration the size of California's population and just what a small number that is. That is actually third best in the United States for emigration loss for states in the country. The top 10 being:
Michigan - 1.5
Texas - 1.6
California - 1.7
Ohio - 1.7
Wisconsin - 1.8
Maine - 1.8
Pennsylvania - 1.9
Minnesota - 2.0
Alabama - 2.0
Indiana - 2.0
The bottom 10 being:
DC - 8.7
Alaska - 5.3
Hawaii - 4.7
Wyoming - 4.5
North Dakota - 4.4
Puerto Rico - 4.2
Colorado - 3.6
New Mexico - 3.5
Delaware - 3.4
Kansas - 3.3
Now when you look at actual gains, the number that actually matters, you see a very different story than Huldrefolk is presenting. When you look at total gains, including immigration, which is the important number to include in the over all scope of things, the numbers actually look like this:
Top 10 for net population gain:
California - 293,573
Florida - 270,098
Texas - 213,439
New York - 143,697
Pennsylvania - 74,266
Massachusetts - 72,180
Illinois - 70,482
New Jersey - 68,324
Washington - 64,519
New Jersey - 63,668
Bottom 10 for population gain:
West Virginia - 1,757
Vermont - 2,385
Wyoming - 2,734
Delaware - 3,047
Maine - 3,324
Puerto Rico - 3,436
Montana - 3,360
South Dakota - 3,672
North Dakota - 4,077
Alaska - 5,740
If you wish to do it by a percentage of state population, then the top 10 are as follows.
Top 10 increase by percent of population
DC - 1.4
Florida - 1.3
Massachusetts - 1.1
Connecticut - 1.0
Hawaii - 0.9
Rhode Island - 0.9
Washington - 0.8
Maryland - 0.8
Alaska - 0.8
New Jersey - 0.8
California (#13) - 0.8
Bottom 10 increase by percent of population
West Virginia - 0.1
Puerto Rico - 0.1
Maine - 0.3
Mississippi - 0.3
Louisiana - 0.3
Kentucky - 0.3
Delaware - 0.3
Missouri - 0.3
Wisconsin - 0.3
Montana - 0.3
This is such a non-issue dreamed up by those with an agenda who don't understand population trends nor take the data into context when making their statements of fact. The reality is that California's population has
continued to grow, period. And like the US population
growth trend, it has slowed over the past few years.