[lit-ideas] Re: Steyn vs Simon
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:26:41 +0900
On 3/11/07, Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Who would move to a Red state? Nobody does that. In fact, it's the other way
around:
creative, educated, intelligent people flee the red states. This includes the
gays. That's
why it's so utterly boring in those states. They are called "flyover" states
for a good
reason.
Andreas,
Sorry, but according to U.S. Census estimates April, 2001-July 2006
Geographic Area Net Migration
Total Net International Migration Net
Internal Migration
United States 7,649,510 7,649,510 -
Northeast -186,165 1,644,011 -1,830,176
Midwest -83,755 1,023,870
-1,107,625
South 5,043,924 2,439,502 2,604,422
West 2,875,506 2,542,127 333,379
As you can see here the South, uniformly red state territory has been
far and away the net winner in terms of internal migration and second
only to the West in terms of international migration, making it by far
the big winner in terms of total migration to region in the period
being considered. In contrast the Northeast, uniformly blue state
territory, is by far the big lower with very high internal emigration
out of region not quite offset by international immigration. The big
shocker for me was the West, where in-migration is overwhelmingly from
international sources, the net internal migration figure being only
12.8% of that to the South.
Cheers,
John
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
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