May 10, 2021
California Fleeing: Democrats delude themselves about why their state is losing people
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/202...ing_people.html
By Monica Showalter

The 2020 Census results are a complete embarrassment to California's ruling Democrats.

Despite opening the floodgates to millions of illegal aliens, making the state the home to one out of four foreigners who break into the country without authorization, the state has made substandard gains in population over the last decade.

The population that the state did gain over the last decade was well below the 7.4% national average, according to the New York Times, and really bad compared to places like number-one Texas. As a result, the state is losing a congressional seat, for the first time in its 170-year history. It's happening despite the 6.1% gain because the number of congressional seats is capped at 435. Any state that gains a seat does so at the expense of another. Hello, California.

That's a significant reversal, because until now, California's story has always been about growth, with Census data often showing that its population had doubled.

Worse still, the population has gone negative, not merely substandard in growth, just in the past year. Residents are voting with their feet.-- excerpt, rest at link above --