Demographics tell the story, evidence of the Great Sort continues to pile up. Today we have an editorial from the good folks at Issues & Insights reporting a fine grained analysis of Census data of the 3,144 counties in the U.S.
In the last three years the counties which voted for Biden net lost 3,670,516 citizens who moved to counties which voted for Trump. In round numbers call it 3.7 million. That is approximately 1% of the U.S. population.
- Of the 555 counties that voted for Biden, 343 (or 62%) lost population since 2020. Of the 2,589 counties that voted for Trump, 1,726 (or 67%) gained population.
- The 11 counties that had the biggest population declines over the past three years all voted for Biden. They lost a net total of 2 million people.
- Of the 11 counties with the biggest gains in population, eight voted for Trump in 2020.
