Per capita, California is not losing the most people. Red states are.
Conservatives purposefully refuse to understand what "per capita" means so that they don't have to deal with all of the additional cognitive dissonance that comes with ignoring basic statistics.
I'm not even kidding.
Critics conveniently forget we're the most populated state so by default we have the highest number of people moving out of state
Per capita, California is not losing the most people. Red states are.
Conservatives purposefully refuse to understand what "per capita" means so that they don't have to deal with all of the additional cognitive dissonance that comes with ignoring basic statistics.
I'm not even kidding.
Critics conveniently forget we're the most populated state so by default we have the highest number of people moving out of state
A little bit deceptive way to say it because there are some red states with high out-migration like Alaska and North Dakota- but there are also a lot of red states with much higher in-migration than California and, especially, New York, such as Florida and Texas.(From what I saw for 2016-2017 this could be more up to date but I don't know the accuracy Plus this looks like generally blue counties are more often out migrating.](https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/stories/2022/03/net-domestic-migration-increased-in-unites-states-counties-2021-figure-2.jpg)
That's not per capita and it seems to ignore deaths, which is also very self serving for the red states.
Florida and Arizona have traditionally been the popular places for old folks to go before dying, that statistic might add clarity.
WV had the biggest percent loss in 2021. And if you look census to census, it's very red state for percent losses.
You can just look at the percent change...