More people reside in California than any other state, but data released on Friday indicates more folks left in 2020 to live in other places than moved there, resulting in the population shrinking for the first time in the Golden State’s recorded history.
The Associated Press reported, “California’s population fell by more than 182,000 last year, the first yearly loss ever recorded for the nation’s most populous state, a growth streak that dated to its founding in 1850 on the heels of a gold rush that prompted a flood of people to seek their fortune in the West.”
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