For the last several years, the United States has undergone a migration pattern based on political preferences. It began when the pandemic produced significantly different public-policy responses by red and blue states, and accelerated until mortgage rates finally returned to historic norms. The Wall Street Journal became one of the first media outlets to take note of the trend in December 2021, but the shift had begun more than a year earlier. And the reasons were obvious:
The pandemic has changed America in many ways, and one major change is the migration from states that locked down their economies and schools the most to those that kept them largely open.
That’s the underreported news in last week’s Census Bureau state population and domestic migration estimates from July 1, 2020 to July 1, 2021. Data used for this year’s Congressional…
