While it may seem like America has fallen under the spell of communism … don’t write us off just yet.
One of the states with the most heavily abused citizenry is California. The ‘left coast’ state has gone so far off the deep end that it is a meme in society that one should not ‘California my Florida.’
I know it is easy to think that Californians ‘got what they asked for,’ there are still many hardworking and logical people in the People’s Republic of Cali. In fact they are working to depose their despotic and hypocritical ruler as we speak.
While that is a fun little story, the real news is that rational Americans are fleeing California at record pace …
Newsmax is reporting:
‘California’s population fell by more than 182,000 people in 2020, marking the first year-over-year loss ever recorded for the nation’s most populous state.
State officials announced Friday that California’s population dipped 0.46% to just under 39.5 million people from January 2020 to January 2021.
The news comes one week after the U.S. Census Bureau announced a paltry population growth for California, resulting in the state losing a congressional seat for the first time because it grew more slowly than other states over the past decade.
But the census numbers reflect the state’s population in April 2020. The new state numbers released Friday reflect the state’s population as of January 2021.
California became a state in 1850 on the heels of a gold rush that prompted people to seek their fortune out west. The population soared following World War II with the help of a robust defense and aerospace industry. It boomed again in the 1980s and 1990s as technology companies put Silicon Valley on the map.
But the growth slowed after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s when the federal government cut back on defense spending and again in the years before the Great Recession in the late 2000s.
State officials say California has seen more people leave than move in from other states for much of the last three decades. However, that had been offset by international immigration and births so that California continued to grow.
That changed in 2020. State officials say a declining birth rate, plus reductions in international immigration and an increase in deaths because of the coronavirus, led to the state’s first ever year-over-year population loss.’
Let us pray that those fleeing California are smart enough not to bring their commie Cali policies with them wherever they land …
