Sunday, August 28, 2011

We're Voting With Our Feet

Writing in The Daily Beast, Michael Medved has put together a Census data-based discussion of how Americans are moving from Blue states to Red states. His findings won't surprise regular COTTonLINE readers.

In the last year, the five states which lost the most population due to internal migration are New York, California, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey. All of these are Blue states.

The five states which gained the most population due to internal migration are Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia. All of these are Red states.

As promised, no surprises. These two sentences succinctly summarize Medved's argument:
If liberal approaches work so well, why are so many people choosing to pack their bags and desert some of the most progressive, pro-labor, big-government states in the union?
And if uncompromising conservatism is a cruel, fraudulent disaster, why do small-government, pro-business, low-tax, gun-toting, and churchgoing states draw such a disproportionate number of America’s internal immigrants?