Some of the biggest swings away from the Democratic Party and toward President-elect Donald Trump in the November election were not in battleground states. They were in deep blue states where voters most affected by Democratic mismanagement and failure to deliver jobs and public safety took revenge on the blue party by turning to Trump.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that many people vote not just on Election Day but vote with their feet each and every day by moving out of Democrat-controlled blue states to Republican-controlled red states.
According to Vintage 2024 population estimates out last week, 22 states on net lost more residents due to domestic migration than gained new residents from other states. The top five population losers were all Democrat controlled, including the biggest loser, California, followed by New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
The biggest winners of domestic migration, by contrast, were all red states, including Texas, followed by North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee.
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