by Frank Holmes, reporter
If you are an American citizen, chances are you either live in a red state… or you want to some day.
The returns are in, and blue state residents are fleeing Democrat-controlled urban areas overseen by Soros-funded prosecutors in favor of orderly, lawful, Republican-run parts of our country.
It may be the crime, the homeless epidemic, or the cost of living, but blue states are bleeding themselves out as U.S. citizens leave, or are driven out.
Blue states “California (-239,575), New York ( -120,917) and Illinois (-56,235) experienced the largest net domestic migration losses between 2023 and 2024,” reported the U.S. Census Bureau just before Christmas. New Jersey and Massachusetts round out the top five states losing Americans to other states.
Meanwhile Republican-controlled Texas, North Carolina, and South Carolina saw the largest number of Americans move to their states from other places around the country. Texas gained 85,267 people; North Carolina grew by 82,288; and South Carolina added 68,043 new residents.
Deep red Florida and Tennessee fill out the top five population-gaining states.
Many can no longer afford to live in blue cities, according to an analysis from an analysis published by GOBankingRates.
To live comfortably in San Jose, California, residents have to earn at least $265,926 a year—the most expensive city in the country.
San Francisco comes in second at a whopping $252,878, where 15,000 people left the city from 2021 to 2022.
New York City costs $175,909, and it lost 113,580 people over the same period.
Detroit is the cheapest city to live in—but no one wants to. Some 8,871 fled Detroit between 2021 and 2022.
Like in the rest of the country, the cost of living is driven by the cost of living facilities. Throughout all of the United States’ 50 largest cities, median home prices soared by 5.8 percent through November 2024 compared to the previous year, according to information published by Redfin, a real estate corporation operating in more than 100 markets nationwide.
Interestingly, so many people have left major U.S. cities that now their suburbs are becoming unlivable.
Anaheim, California—a suburb of Los Angeles—saw mortgage rates rise the most last year, up 12.5 percent.
Three bedroom communities that see its residents commute to New York City—Newark, New Jersey; New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Nassau County, New York—all saw housing prices rise by between 10 percent and 11 percent.
Things don’t get bluer than Providence, Rhode Island—a state where no Republican has held statewide office in nearly two decades—and they don’t get much more expensive: housing is up nearly 10 percent.
Chicago, Seattle, San Jose, and Cleveland make the list of the top 15 cities with the highest-rising housing prices, as do Detroit and its suburb, Warren.
“Essentially, the Democrats are waging a demographic war on themselves,” wrote Joel Kotkin at The American Mind, a publication of the Claremont Institute. “Blue states and cities suffer the nation’s lowest birth rates, with San Francisco and Los Angeles suffering the first and second lowest fertility rates of the 53 largest markets. In contrast, eight of the youngest cities are almost all in red states, led by Salt Lake City and Houston.”
Compare that to conservative, Republican areas. “According to recent analysis by Zen Business, Texas and Florida are now the country’s high-growth hotspots, attracting the most tech workers. Income growth is now roughly 40% higher in these states than in New York and New Jersey, as well as other blue state laggards California, Illinois, and Oregon,” wrote Kotkin.
All these shifts mean money—lots of money. In 2020-2021, the southeastern United States gained $100 billion in income, while the northeastern U.S. (think New York City and Boston) lost $60 billion. Los Angeles lost $15 billion.
They also shift electoral votes from blue states to red states, noted The New York Times in an article titled “Bad News, Democrats: America Is About to Get Even Redder,” which is accompanied with a video.
Why would anyone stay in blue states? Not for the economy. Despite the fact that Governor Gavin Newsom desperately wanted to run for president this year, just after the election his state’s Legislative Analyst Office admitted, “California’s economy has been in an extended slowdown for the better part of two years, characterized by a soft labor market and weak consumer spending.”
“Outside of government and health care, the state has added no jobs in a year and a half,” it said.
But wait—the actions of U.S. citizens aren’t the only, or even the primary, thing that matters to Democratic states.
Blue states are actually gaining population…from other countries.
Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Washington have actually gained more than 100,000 people, and the nation’s capital—the District of Columbia—“was the fastest growing (2.2%) among state and state equivalents for the first time since 2011,” reported the Census Bureau.
Blue states have decided their key to maintaining their population is immigrants—legal and illegal.
“It is good that millions of people from around the world still consider California a better place to live than their home countries. For all the problems the Democratic Party has caused in the Golden State, it is still a better place to live than Venezuela, Haiti, and South Sudan,” declared an editorial in the Washington Examiner. “But ‘better than South Sudan’ is not the standard Americans should lower their expectations to.”
With Islamic terrorist attacks ringing in the new year, the Obama-Biden-Harris version of America is becoming indistinguishable from South Sudan. You deserve better. In Trump’s America, we’ll get it.