Because the 21st-century economy is global and portable, residents and businesses have other options. Employers and educated people can uproot themselves, and they have been, fleeing the congestion, the traffic, the crumbling infrastructure, and the deficient schools. Between 1990 and 2000, 2 million more left the state than arrived from other states.
Guess what was the predominate political persuasion of the 2 million leaving the state? Guess who replaced that 2 million deficit?
The U.S. Census Bureau report noted that a number of states have benefited from California's woes: "199,000 of the 466,000 people who moved to Nevada during this time came from California.... Between 1995 and 2000, 644,000 people moved to Colorado from other states, led by 111,000 migrants from California."
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