<p>The U.S. Census Bureau <a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/2022-population-estimates.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Thursday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> lost more residents than any other state this year, with over 300,000 people fleeing the state, marking the third consecutive year that California’s population declined.</p>
<p>California joined 17 other states this year that experienced a population decline, compared to 15 and D.C. in 2021. The bureau reported that California’s 39,029,342 population lost 343,230 residents primarily due to net domestic outmigration. However, the 0.3% population decrease did not match the 0.9% fall between 2020 and 2021.</p>
<p>According to the Bureau, the Population Estimates Program uses current data on births, deaths, and migration to calculate population change since the most recent decennial census date and produces a time series of estimates of population, demographic components of change, and housing units.</p>
<p>H.D. Palmer, deputy director of external affairs at the California Department of Finance, told <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article270354472.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Sacramento Bee</a> the state had seen a historical trend of net loss of residents to “domestic migration” for years.</p>
<p>“Some people — for reasons other than demographics and more politics — try to jump on some of the outmigration numbers,” Palmer said.</p>
<p>Residents across the state have been escaping Governor Gavin Newsom’s rule of California in droves, especially since 2020, when the Democratic leader and the primarily left-wing legislature shut down the state in response to COVID.</p>
<p>Amid high taxes already killing the middle-class, skyrocketing crime rates, rampant homelessness, and an unaffordable housing crisis, the one-party system on the West Coast essentially turned California into a feudal state, or as some conservative leaders called it, a socialist nightmare.</p>
<p>“If you talk to demographers, they’ll say that one of the factors is the cost of housing,” Palmer said. “And that’s continued to be a challenging issue for the state.”</p>
<p>The Hoover Institution at Stanford University published a <a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/california-business-exits-soared-2021-and-there-no-end-sight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> in October showing that California business headquarters left the state in 2021 “at twice their rate in both 2020 and 2019, and at three times their rate in 2018.”</p>
<p>&#8220;In the last three years, California lost eleven Fortune 1000 companies, whose exits negatively affect California’s economy today,&#8221; the report reads.</p>
<p>Such companies include aerospace, financial services, real estate, health care, and manufacturing businesses.</p>
<p>&#8220;Policies have driven business and housing costs so high that companies and people are leaving the state for more affordable, less regulated, and less taxed locations,&#8221; the report further noted. &#8220;This process will continue until the state’s political leaders make very different policy choices that create a different future for California—one that honors its remarkable past.&#8221;</p>
<p>Aside from the Golden State, the biggest population losses in the U.S. were in New York (-299,557) and Illinois (-141,656), according to the Bureau.</p>
<p>The Bureau also reported that Florida was the fastest-growing state in 2022, with an annual population increase of 1.9%, resulting in a total resident population of 22,244,823.</p>
<p>“While Florida has often been among the largest-gaining states,” Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Population Division at the Census Bureau, said in a <a href="https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/2022-population-estimates.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>, “this was the first time since 1957 that Florida has been the state with the largest percent increase in population.”</p>
<p>Trailing behind the Sunshine State, the second largest-gaining state was Texas, with 230,961 new residents, and in third was North Carolina, which took in a population increase of 99,796 people.</p>
<p>“All 50 states and the District of Columbia saw positive net international migration with California (125,715), Florida (125,629) and Texas (118,614) having the largest gains,” the Census reported.</p>

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