On Saturday I wrote about the United Van Lines survey of states gaining and losing population as our internal population shifts happen. At that time I noted that moving companies are expensive and we should also hear what U-Haul has to say about internal migration to see what younger, less affluent migrants were doing.
This morning comes exactly that U-Haul data, courtesy of the Issues & Insights website.
Yet another measure of the Blue State exodus is the U-Haul Growth Index, a yearly report that gauges the net number of U-Haul trucks leaving and entering a state. It’s a measure of that state’s raw emigration rate.This year, no surprise here, the top 5 were all Red States — Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and Arizona. The bottom 5 included California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Alabama.U-Haul also noted that the data would have looked even worse, but they literally ran out of equipment in California, so large was the demand to leave.
I can’t resist the relentless lyrics of Rawhide for titling reports about moving.
