A demography expert said the numbers are 'most interesting' and most likely due to domestic migration.
A map of the U.S. population shows which states are growing and shrinking the quickest.The data, which draws on statistics from the State Data Center, a U.S. Census Bureau partner, tracks numbers per state since four years ago. While some states gained many more people in this period, others did not. So why?Demography expert Dudley Poston, an emeritus professor of sociology at Texas A&M University, told Newsweek that the numbers are 'most interesting.
Both are factors that people may consider when migrating to another state.Although it may seem surprising, Poston noted that political climates in each state don't play a huge role in population shifts. If it did, we would see lots of people in conservative states in the South, like Texas, moving to more liberal states such as California and New York, he said. But these states shrank in population the most.
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