South Carolina and Florida were the two fastest-growing states in the U.S., as the South dominated population gains in 2023, and the U.S. growth rate ticked upward slightly from the depths of the pandemic due to a drop in deaths, according to estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The United States added 1.6 million people, of which more than two-thirds came from international migration. The half percent growth rate was a slight uptick from the 0.4% growth rate last year and the less than 2% increase in 2021.
The growth rate “is an uptick from the pandemic but still low by historical standards,” said William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution.
Population gains or losses come from births outpacing deaths, or vice versa, and migration.
I just have two thoughts on it. 1) About time all the migrants from other states start moving back away again. I’ve been wanting that for decades. 2) Proportional representation in the House really needs to be fixed.
It’s true, but I’m not sure how we do it.
Here’s the thing… Democrats could flip the House and increase their lead in the Senate easily. In fact, they could make their leads in both chambers practically insurmountable. All they’d have to do is have small numbers of Democratic voters in the large states move to states like Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, etc. Have a few million people migrate from California, New York, and Illinois, and those deeply red states would instantly become bright blue.
The problem, however, is obvious: How do you convince someone living in New York to move to North Dakota?
Give me money to buy a house and I’ll go to ND.
Give me a reach around and I’ll go to ND
No one is moving from a good place to a bad place to make the bad place better. See: inner city schools. No affluent white people are moving to the city to boost the tax base and performance of urban public schools and that would only take a move across town, not away from jobs and family. It would have to be a hell of an incentive.