{"id":85105,"date":"2023-05-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85105"},"modified":"2023-05-09T13:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T18:30:59","slug":"atlas-shrugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85105","title":{"rendered":"Atlas Shrugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Money – in the form of productive people – is moving from Blue to Red America<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data show that several populous blue states\u2014California, New York, and Illinois among them\u2014have been losing population and companies for years. In 2021 Forbes <\/em>wrote about \u201cleftugees<\/a>\u201d fleeing blue states for red ones. A few years before that, a headline<\/a> in The Hill<\/em> touched on \u201cthe great exodus out of America’s blue cities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New IRS data, however, show the speed with which blue states are losing taxpayers\u2014and their adjusted gross income (AGI)\u2014is increasing. A recent Wall Street Journal<\/em> analysis<\/a> found that more than 100,000 people left Illinois in 2021, taking with them some $11 billion in AGI, nearly double its 2019 total. For New York it was $24.5 billion, an increase of more than 150 percent from 2019. California, meanwhile, saw its AGI loss ($29 billion) more than triple since 2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And Minnesota is far from immune – and, indeed, may be doing worse<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Figure 1 shows, until 2001 Minnesota received more residents from other states each year than it lost to them. Since then, in all except two years, 2017 and 2018, our state has seen more residents leave than have chosen to come here from elsewhere in the United States. The loss of residents seen in 2021 and 2022 is not a new phenomenon, but the pace of exit is quickening: Minnesotans are fleeing the state in larger numbers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figure 1: Annual net domestic migration in Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Census Bureau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Where did people move to and from? Figure 2 shows domestic net migration for 2022 for all the fifty states and District of Columbia. We see that the most popular destinations by far were Texas and Florida. On net, these states gained an impressive 549,816 residents in one year. The big losers were New York and California. Together, these two states lost a staggering 642,787 residents between 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s entirely possible that when co-governors Klink and Flanagan refer to “One Minnesota”, they mean “after all the productive, dissenting voters leave”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Money – in the form of productive people – is moving from Blue to Red America: Data show that several populous blue states\u2014California, New York, and Illinois among them\u2014have been losing population and companies for years. In 2021 Forbes wrote about \u201cleftugees\u201d fleeing blue states for red ones. A few years before that, a headline in The Hill touched on \u201cthe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85106,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85105\/revisions\/85106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}