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Louisiana has lost people at a higher rate than California
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:41 pm
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:41 pm
Since 2020. What the heck is going on down there?
SEC states by population change 2020-2022:
3.03%- Florida
2.94%- S Carolina
2.73%- Texas
1.82%- Tennessee
1.71%- Georgia
1.38%- Oklahoma
1.04%- Arkansas
0.85%- Alabama
0.54%- NATIONAL AVG
0.39%- Missouri
0.11%- Kentucky
-0.61%- Mississippi
-1.32%- Louisiana
Worth noting, California has lost 1.2% of its population. Only Illinois (-1.60%) and New York (-2.14%) have lost people at a higher rate than Louisiana.
Basically the entire South is booming except for LA and MS.
SEC states by population change 2020-2022:
3.03%- Florida
2.94%- S Carolina
2.73%- Texas
1.82%- Tennessee
1.71%- Georgia
1.38%- Oklahoma
1.04%- Arkansas
0.85%- Alabama
0.54%- NATIONAL AVG
0.39%- Missouri
0.11%- Kentucky
-0.61%- Mississippi
-1.32%- Louisiana
Worth noting, California has lost 1.2% of its population. Only Illinois (-1.60%) and New York (-2.14%) have lost people at a higher rate than Louisiana.
Basically the entire South is booming except for LA and MS.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:41 pm to AUTiger789
Crime and poverty. Poor infrastructure and schools. You name it
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:44 pm to AUTiger789
Back-to-back hurricanes.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:46 pm to AUTiger789
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What the heck is going on down there?
Booze kills?
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:48 pm to AUTiger789
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2.94%- S Carolina
I'm assuming that Florida is probably retirees — just out of curiosity, why is South Carolina so high?
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:49 pm to AUTiger789
My community (Orgeron’s) home was decimated by two hurricanes. Still hard to imagine 20,000 citizens without a hospital. I’m never there but heard estimates of 25% of population have left.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:51 pm to paperwasp
Florida is partly retirees, but South Florida is booming with high net worth transplants from New York fleeing the taxes and Covid lockdowns. Miami is flooded with NYC Wall Street types who can work from home.
South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, N Carolina is also partly retirees (not near the level of FL) but again, mostly folks from up north fleeing taxes and cold weather
South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, N Carolina is also partly retirees (not near the level of FL) but again, mostly folks from up north fleeing taxes and cold weather
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:53 pm to Mulkey Man
hurricanes in LA have been there since time began,
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:53 pm to paperwasp
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South Carolina so high?
In Florida little old ladies know how to be on guard for gators
Seems they are migrating North and eating the little old ladies up there
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:53 pm to AUTiger789
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South Carolina is also partly retirees (not near the level of FL) but again, mostly folks from up north fleeing taxes and cold weather
Interesting.
I might need to ring Lonnie Utah and tell him we comin' to have a look around.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:54 pm to AUTiger789
It’s also worth noting that Louisiana and Kentucky locked down harder during Covid than other southern states. And their growth rates have suffered. New Orleans had vaccine passport requirements. Both those states kept schools closed longer.
Meanwhile the free states of FL and GA benefited from their curtailing of freedoms.
Meanwhile the free states of FL and GA benefited from their curtailing of freedoms.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:57 pm to LC412000
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My community (Orgeron’s) home was decimated by two hurricanes. Still hard to imagine 20,000 citizens without a hospital. I’m never there but heard estimates of 25% of population have left.
That's terrible, brother. Better days ahead.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:57 pm to AUTiger789
shite schools, shite roads, highest car insurance rates in the country with hurricanes basically killing the entire private homeowners insurance market, the two biggest cities are top 5 in the country for murder rates IIRC. Politicians would rather devote time and resources to require their citizens upload their IDs to access pornhub than fix any of the aforementioned issues.
Place is a shithole. I'd leave too if it weren't for family and job reasons tying me here.
Place is a shithole. I'd leave too if it weren't for family and job reasons tying me here.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:57 pm to paperwasp
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I'm assuming that Florida is probably retirees — just out of curiosity, why is South Carolina so high?
Cost of living and weather are two huge factors for SC. Most people moving from the North are tired of the cold.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:58 pm to texag7
quote:I hate Texag7 but he's right
Crime and poverty. Poor infrastructure and schools. You name it
The reality is it's a republican state with democratic leaders and they don't have the natural resources of other democrat states so Latoya Cantrell has led Nola to the murder capital of the country and John Bel Edwards is a 2 term governor who's working for that lifetime democrat job so he crippled the economy in the name of Covid.
fricking awful leadership. Just incredibly fricking terrible.
We loved our home and left for Florida
This post was edited on 2/17/23 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 2/17/23 at 4:58 pm to AUTiger789
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2.94%- S Carolina

Posted on 2/17/23 at 5:01 pm to Mulkey Man
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Back-to-back hurricanes.
Yep.
We had a Cat 5 a few years ago. It seems like half the Dr's left and aren't coming back. I know a few dozen "working class" people that got the hell out of dodge.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 5:10 pm to AUTiger789
Left last May.
Tired of dealing with:
- Crime & safety issues
- High car insurance rates
- Hurricanes
- Shitty job market
- Shitty roads
- Shitty government that nickels and dimes you every chance they get
- Shitty public services
- Shitty public schools
We moved to northwest Alabama and literally everything is better here except the food.
Tired of dealing with:
- Crime & safety issues
- High car insurance rates
- Hurricanes
- Shitty job market
- Shitty roads
- Shitty government that nickels and dimes you every chance they get
- Shitty public services
- Shitty public schools
We moved to northwest Alabama and literally everything is better here except the food.
Posted on 2/17/23 at 5:10 pm to AUTiger789
People from Louisiana tell me it is terrible back home. Crime, rampant drug use, poverty, STDs, bad roads, you name it, they say it is happening in Louisiana.
Most of their refugees end up in Texas.
Most of their refugees end up in Texas.
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