COTTonLINE is interested in policies related to migration within the US. Power Line’s John Hinderaker brings us a chart assembled by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. It reflects the percent change in total personal income, adjusted for inflation, over the period 2000-2024, for blue states and red states.
The results are these: Red states have experienced a 71.2% increase. Blue states have only experienced a 49.2% increase over that same 25 year period.
Hinderaker summarizes what this means.
People are moving to red states for lower taxes, certainly, but more fundamentally, for better job opportunities. Those job opportunities are reflected in total personal income growing much faster in red states than blue states. Also, these numbers are pre-tax, so the disparity is even greater with respect to after-tax incomes.
Hat tip to Connie Francis for my title.
