Florida’s Republican voter registration over Democrat voter registration is now over 700,000. As recently as 2021, there were more registered Democrats than Republicans in Florida. Conservatives from the Northeast, Midwest and West have been flocking to Florida (and Texas) and away from California, Illinois and New York:
And the wealthiest Californians are fleeing the state. Even though California has experienced lopsided out-migration for decades, the financial blow has been cushioned by the kinds of people moving into the state: The newcomers were generally better educated and earned more money than those who left.
Not now: That long-standing trend has reversed. New state-to-state migration data show that for the last several years, thousands more high-earning, well-educated workers have left California than have moved in.