I love a good county-level map. Here's one from Siddharth Khurana, a University of Texas undergrad in government, international relations, and history who's interested in demographic and political map-making (via Twitter):
(Click to enlarge.)
He described it this way:
Which region are most out-of-state residents from?
Generally lines up with what region a particular state is in, but the Northeastern influx is evident in Florida and retiree spots.
So essentially most of the state-to-state migration is within major regions of the country, with a few obvious and unsurprising exceptions like Florida, California, and Texas.
That Southern migration dominates such large areas of California is probably surprising, I guess. And that so many people from the Midwest have moved to Colorado is maybe a little unexpected, but I'd be willing to bet the majority are from Kansas and Nebraska. If I'm right about that, it's less unexpected, since they're adjacent states.
The things that I did find of note:
- Ohio is dominated by Southern migration, all the way to the northern border, compared to Indiana, Illinois or Missouri. I wonder why?
- Kentucky is, conversely, dominated by Midwestern migration. I wonder if the Kentuckians went to Ohio and the Ohioans went to Kentucky?
- Southwestern Pennsylvania is the South.
- Check out those Northeasterners in San Francisco and Marin County!
There are clearly some political meanings in these first three bullets.
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