Americans Are Fleeing Troubled, Tax-Heavy ‘Blue States’ and Heading to Texas, Florida, and Other Sunbelt Havens: Census Bureau
‘The two largest flows,’ a survey statistician at the Census Bureau, Mehreen Ismail, wrote of the findings, ‘came either to or from the four most populous states: large numbers of people moved from California to Texas and from New York to Florida.’

Americans are increasingly restless. As they rethink whether they want to live with the higher taxes, crime, and illegal immigration that increasingly characterize “blue” states, people and their capital are fleeing to “red” states.
That’s the latest from the Census Bureau, which released on Tuesday a report disclosing that among the 8.2 million Americans relocating their residencies in 2022, Florida and Texas were the top destinations. These dispersions reflect a growing trend of interstate migration that is transforming the socioeconomic landscape of America.
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