Lower taxes, Republican legislatures, and stronger pandemic economies — people flocked to red states and abandoned blue ones in 2022.
Florida saw the biggest influx of new residents, some 319,000 people, a total population increase of nearly 2%, according to anreleased on Monday by the National Association of Realtors. In terms of sheer volume, the Sunshine State was followed by Texas, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Arizona, and Idaho.
The NAR noted in its report that many of the areas that saw the most people relocating featured economies where the labor market had bounded back since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, which featured state and local governments across the United States shutting down or restricting business operations in an effort to quell the virus.
AEI, a center-right think tank, said that empirical evidence suggests that “domestic migration patterns in the US do reflect Americans and firms ‘voting/moving with their feet’ from Democratic-controlled, high-tax, business-unfriendly, fiscally unhealthy, economically stagnant states with relatively high electricity and housing costs to Republican-controlled, lower-tax, more business-friendly, fiscally healthy and economically vibrant states with lower electricity and housing costs.
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