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Florida, Nevada Shed People; Texas Gains

Magnet states in West, South lose residents; Texas gains the most

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 23, 2009 5:15 PM CST

(Newser) – The recession has turned migration patterns on their heads in the last year. So-called magnet states in the West and South aren't so magnetic anymore, with Florida and Nevada starkly illustrating the trend. Earlier this decade, they both topped the growth charts, but now see more people on the way out than on the way in. Florida “was a growth machine,” a demographer tells the Washington Post. “And it just sort of stopped.”

Texas saw the biggest population increase in the year ending July 1, with 478,000 new residents, says the Census. Wide open states like Utah and Wyoming had even higher growth rates. Urban locales like California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York are doing better after years of decline, while states such as Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia are on the downswing.


Americans are fleeing certain states in the same numbers they flocked to them just a couple years ago.
Americans are fleeing certain states in the same numbers they flocked to them just a couple years ago.   (AP Photo)
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Cenus workers.   (AP Photo)
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Cher
Jan 27, 2010 2:36 AM CST
YOURSELF...you are completely right. People that come to Texas just to have a job and not make it their home state are wrong. Texas is a state of mind. You have to be a naitive to understand but it is true. DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS.
Cher
Jan 27, 2010 2:28 AM CST
SPRAYNARD...With all due respect I would rather you didn't try to solicit people to come to Houston or even Texas for that matter. . We have our fair share of aliens already. I'm sick of them. Now we even have road sign in different languages. If they can't read english they need to go to some other state.
passinthru
Dec 29, 2009 1:36 AM CST
its easy for a state that has its own oil fields, the market doesnt fluctuate like it does everywhere else.

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