TrumpCare May Lead to Massive Internal Migrations.

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44. Four of the top 5 states for in migration for 2015-16 were red states

although in the past both Florida and North Carolina have been purple/blue.

The uptick in population growth was fueled by an increase in net migration: North Carolina received 81,000 net migrants between 2015 and 2016. This was the fifth largest inflow of any state after Florida (346K), Texas (221K), Washington (94K), and Arizona (83K). Net migration accounted for nearly three of every four new residents to the state.

http://demography.cpc.unc.edu/2017/02/10/north-carolina-population-growth-at-highest-levels-since-2010/


Like you, we left California (although many years earlier in 1988) and moved several times before ending up in NC. At the time we moved here, in 2000, it was a purple/blue state. We've been very distressed since Republicans took over the state government after Dems didn't turn out in 2010 and the Repubs gerrymandered state districts. It's only with the help of court decisions that districts are finally being redrawn and we managed to kick the Republican governor out in 2016 but the Republican Legislature has been passing laws attempting to limit the now Dem Governor's role. It's a really nasty fight.

My point, though, is that people can move and governments can change from red to blue and back again. Look how many years Reagan and Republicans were in control in California--before he was exported to damage the entire country. Now California is blue once again. You can move--and be screwed--as we have been several times as state governments change.