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Recession Cuts Migration to Sun Belt, New Figures Show
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 23, 2009 03:57pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: December 23, 2009
MIAMI — The Sun Belt states that grew like fertilized weeds during the real estate boom are now experiencing sharp declines in population growth, the Census Bureau said Wednesday.
Those states are still projected to gain seats in Congress after the 2010 census, while industrial states in the Northeast are likely to lose seats.
But in yet another sign of the recession’s power to reshape established demographic trends, the new figures show that as of July, growth has slowed to a trickle in Arizona, while in Florida, Nevada and California, more Americans moved out than in.
“What we have is a decade of a roller coaster in terms of migration,” said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. “If you look at the middle part of this decade, Florida led the country in net domestic migration. Now it’s in the negative part of the ledger.”
The shift is especially vivid in state rankings prepared by Mr. Frey. With the new numbers, his analysis shows, Florida now ranks 45th in domestic migration growth after ranking first from July of 2001 to July 2005. It lost 31,179 people to other states from July 2008 to July 2009.
In terms of its total growth rate with foreign arrivals included, Florida now ranks 32nd, down from third in 2002. |
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