Citizens are fleeing cities run by Democrats in record numbers
This story is simply another data point in a well known trend that became very clear during and after the panic over COVID: The populations of cities run by Democrats are dropping faster than ever before, as citizen flee these badly run crime-ridden hellholes where only honest citizens get punished for defending themselves.
The number of people who used to live in Los Angeles County and Cook County in Illinois continues to plummet.
Los Angeles County posted the largest population decline of all counties in the United States in 2022, falling by 90,704 and continuing a downward trend. It lost nearly twice that amount (180,394) in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 estimates released Thursday. Cook County, home to Chicago, lost 68,314 people from July 2021 to July of last year.
…The biggest losers were Los Angeles County, California (-90,704); Cook County, Illinois (-68,314); Queens County, New York (-50,112); Kings County, New York (-46,970); and Bronx County, New York (-41,143).
Not surprisingly, the counties with the greatest influx of new residents were in traditionally conservative states, Texas, Florida, and Arizona, though Arizona will probably lose that status as its many refugees from California arrive and continue to vote for Democrats.
Can anyone explain this trend? It seems so puzzling that people would flee cities run by Democrats to go places where Republican rule has dominated.
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This story is simply another data point in a well known trend that became very clear during and after the panic over COVID: The populations of cities run by Democrats are dropping faster than ever before, as citizen flee these badly run crime-ridden hellholes where only honest citizens get punished for defending themselves.
The number of people who used to live in Los Angeles County and Cook County in Illinois continues to plummet.
Los Angeles County posted the largest population decline of all counties in the United States in 2022, falling by 90,704 and continuing a downward trend. It lost nearly twice that amount (180,394) in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 estimates released Thursday. Cook County, home to Chicago, lost 68,314 people from July 2021 to July of last year.
…The biggest losers were Los Angeles County, California (-90,704); Cook County, Illinois (-68,314); Queens County, New York (-50,112); Kings County, New York (-46,970); and Bronx County, New York (-41,143).
Not surprisingly, the counties with the greatest influx of new residents were in traditionally conservative states, Texas, Florida, and Arizona, though Arizona will probably lose that status as its many refugees from California arrive and continue to vote for Democrats.
Can anyone explain this trend? It seems so puzzling that people would flee cities run by Democrats to go places where Republican rule has dominated.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
“The number of people who used to live in Los Angeles County and Cook County in Illinois continues to plummet.”
I don’t think the number of people who used to live in those places is plummeting; the number of people who still live there is plummeting. (Yes, I know, this is a direct quote from the other web page, so it’s their unclear phrasing.)
Also, New York City actually has a clear lead here, with a loss of ~138,000; it’s just spread over three counties (Kings County is Brooklyn).
Since these are census bureau estimates, they will of course be wildly inaccurate. Comparing things like cell phone usage, cars on the roads, sewage, water, electricity consumption, etc., yields an estimate of the population of Southern California, for example, that is anywhere from 50% to 250% greater than the census reports, depending on what methodology you rely on most. It’s not clear whether these estimates of people fleeing share the same problem and are on the same scale, of if the “dark” population that the census misses are fleeing in greater or lesser numbers, or even continuing to immigrate into those areas. It would not surprise me to learn that the productive, acknowledged members of the public are fleeing, but that illegals and such are still flowing into these areas in numbers sufficient to replace them and more. Of course, that’s not exactly a good thing for these areas, either, but it’s data these reports and articles don’t mention.
David Eastman wrote: “Since these are census bureau estimates, they will of course be wildly inaccurate. Comparing things like cell phone usage, cars on the roads, sewage, water, electricity consumption, etc., yields an estimate of the population of Southern California, for example,”
Care must be taken when using proxy data for actual data. These proxies could be changing due to other reasons, and the reasons could be related to each other and not to actual population. Cell phone usage and cars on roads could be due to people going back to in-person work. Water usage could be increasing now that the drought has been declared over, and sewer flow rates may increase correspondingly. Electricity consumption could be due to in-person work or the all-electrification of California.
In-person counting has its own problems, especially when some of the countees fear getting into trouble or deported by responding to the government census taker.
U-Haul and other moving company reports tell a story that is difficult to dispute. Income tax reports are another indicator. However, as David suggests, illegal immigrants into the area may not be well reflected in these proxies.