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And here you have a left wing nut of a journalist getting it completely wrong about Florida....
This assertion came from a Business Insider article that, when Rubin wrote, had already been corrected. In fact, the exact opposite is true. The Post had to correct Rubin’s error:
But this is the point I want to make: it is truly extraordinary that a left-wing columnist and (presumably) an editor at the Washington Post are living in such a bubble that they are unaware of the fact that Florida, under Ron DeSantis, has become America’s number one boom state.
Americans are moving to Florida as fast as they can dump their houses in New York, Illinois, California and Minnesota. This chart, from American Experiment, shows net domestic migration for each state from 2019 through 2022. Florida is on top, with Texas in second place:
Note that the states to which people are moving are red, while the states that Americans are abandoning the fastest–California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts–are blue. Doesn’t everyone know this? Apparently not. Evidently those who work at the Washington Post are ignorant not just of data, but of the most obvious and visible demographic and economic trends.
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This assertion came from a Business Insider article that, when Rubin wrote, had already been corrected. In fact, the exact opposite is true. The Post had to correct Rubin’s error:
But this is the point I want to make: it is truly extraordinary that a left-wing columnist and (presumably) an editor at the Washington Post are living in such a bubble that they are unaware of the fact that Florida, under Ron DeSantis, has become America’s number one boom state.
Americans are moving to Florida as fast as they can dump their houses in New York, Illinois, California and Minnesota. This chart, from American Experiment, shows net domestic migration for each state from 2019 through 2022. Florida is on top, with Texas in second place:
Note that the states to which people are moving are red, while the states that Americans are abandoning the fastest–California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts–are blue. Doesn’t everyone know this? Apparently not. Evidently those who work at the Washington Post are ignorant not just of data, but of the most obvious and visible demographic and economic trends.
At WaPo, an Epic Blunder
Jennifer Rubin is a left-wing columnist for the Washington Post. So, naturally, she hates Ron DeSantis. On Friday, she published a column arguing that DeSantis’s conservative policies endange…
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