Gavin Newsom is doing his best to further destroy California, and for once, his best is remarkably effective. 

For the first time in the history of California, the nation's most populous state saw its population decline during Newsom's pointlessly authoritarian COVID mandates. Those trends continued from 2022 to 2023, encompassing New York as well,, as residents fled for cheaper cost of living, higher quality of life, sanity in public education and states like Florida where crime is actually punished and prosecuted.

And when broken down at the county level, it's even more obvious how the left's mismanagement on both coasts is leading hundreds of thousands of residents to leave what used to be a desirable place to live. 

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county with the highest level of outward net migration, meaning more people left than moved in, is Los Angeles. And it's not even close.