[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Monsterzuma]

The population shrinkage will counteract much of that. Paraphrasing Dean Baker: demographics?! MEH.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Illinois was the No. 3 state in America for outbound moves in 2014, United Van Lines said Friday.

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[gay_Aleks]

What does that mean? A lot of people want out of Illinois, and a lot into Florida?

 

[bhavv]

Thank you for this, I need to study and learn all of these. Its always annoying when people keep quoting such words to counter my arguments, only to be using them or some other from that list in theirs.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

What does that mean? A lot of people want out of Illinois, and a lot into Florida?

Well, that is one way to look at it. But Illinois is number three in the parade of places people are hot-footing out of. The obvious take on it is people are leaving your liberal blue states for the well-run red states.

But noodling on it suggests it could be old geezers with the cold in their bones moving to retirement communities in the South. You will note the map does not show the blue states are loosing population. So perhaps young people are establishing households in the blue states to enjoy the prosperity of the blue states. Or not. Whatever.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Is this graph tracking only inter-state movement, or does it tracks movement in the state itself?

 

[Bootstoots]

Well, that is one way to look at it. But Illinois is number three in the parade of places people are hot-footing out of. The obvious take on it is people are leaving your liberal blue states for the well-run red states.

But noodling on it suggests it could be old geezers with the cold in their bones moving to retirement communities in the South. You will note the map does not show the blue states are loosing population. So perhaps young people are establishing households in the blue states to enjoy the prosperity of the blue states. Or not. Whatever.

My guess is that it doesn't have much to do with how well-run individual states are except indirectly if that shows up in the state's economic performance or something. It mostly just looks like the decades-old trend of people moving from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt for various reasons, with old geezers making up a large chunk of that.

...although Illinois is usually at or near the bottom when people are surveyed about how much they like the state they're in, so it specifically might have some people moving out due to mismanagement.

 

[dutchfire]

From the linked article:

United Van Lines, which has tracked migration since 1977, said it tallied 6,283 moves out of Illinois and 3,630 into the state.

So the statistics are not that great.

I assume there's quite a bit of selection bias in there, since not everyone uses a moving company. I assume a student moving from Arkansas to Illinois to go to college will just load up all his clothes and some other stuff in his parents car and drive to his new dorm, while a senior couple of bankers from NYC are likely to hire a moving company to move their furniture to their retirement place in Florida.

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Who would move to Oklahoma? Why? I live in Saudi Arabia and I prefer it to Oklahoma.

 

[gay_Aleks]

That graph only says that the users of United Van Lines have a high desire to move to Oklahoma. They're not actually a basis for everyone living in America.

 

[madviking]

i'm more interesting about the people moving into washington dc

 

[dutchfire]

congressmen?

 

[madviking]

and dt and his family

 

[Phrossack]

i'm more interesting about the people moving into washington dc

Parts of it are crappy. Parts of it are wonderful. The parts I've visited were quite nice.

 

[madviking]

Parts of it are crappy. Parts of it are wonderful. The parts I've visited were quite nice.

they also haven't a built a house since 1924

 

[Fr8monkey]

Submarine Cable Map 2014

 

[Algeroth]

Too much useless polish infoporn in this thread, not enogh useless czech infoporn

 

[JohannaK]

Proof that French are all secretly women.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Now that I think about it, there are very few country names that are plural.

 

[Domen]

So Americans are secretly hermaphrodites ???

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