ATR: The Blue State Brain/Worker Drain continues.

Voting with their feet:

In 2013, more than 200,000 people on net fled states with Democrat governors for ones run by Republicans, according to an analysis of newly released IRS data by Americans for Tax Reform.

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That year, Democrat-run states lost a net 226,763 taxpayers, bringing with them nearly $15.7 billion in adjusted gross income (AGI). That same year, states with Republican governors gained nearly 220,000 new taxpayers, who brought more than $14.1 billion in AGI with them.

Only one-third of states with Democrat governors gained taxpayers, compared to three-fifths of states with Republican governors.

And, as I understand it: the traditional worry that the Right have about these internal immigrants is a bit overblown. A lot of them are leaving because they want to breathe a little easier, which means that they don’t necessarily intend to try to change everything around the second they get to their new digs. Which, you know, makes a certain amount of sense?  I mean, they still might have bad habits, but you can break bad habits…