Is it true that there has been a large migration of Americans to the southern US?

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Americans from other regions, retirees, young people who move for work

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  1. NoCountryForOld_Zen Avatar

    It’s true that Florida’s population is growing and that most Florida residents aren’t born there. Dunno about the other southern states.

  2. roll_wave Avatar

    No, the southern US has a super low population outside of FL, GA, and TX. Also has much lower development, standards of living, healthcare, education, etc.

    Majority of Americans live on West Coast, Mid West, and Northeast Corridor. And then FL/TX.

  3. Big-Detective-19 Avatar

    Yup. Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, and Tennessee have had huge influxes of people from the north and Midwest. This has been ongoing since the 50s and it tends to erode the southern accent while also changing voting patterns.

    Initially many of these transplants actually pushed the south towards being more Republican, with suburbs of places like Atlanta going heavily for Reagan, Nixon, etc, but now these populations are going blue while the southerners get redder seemingly every day.

    My family has been in Georgia since the 1700s and so I have heard perspectives on this from people who knew what Georgia was like before and during the thrust of these migrations. I think it’s a net plus at least for where I am. Atlanta my hometown has gone from a backwater to one of the more prominent cities.

  4. BlackEyedAngel01 Avatar

    There is no significant difference in growth between southern states and the rest of the US https://worldpopulationreview.com/states