Since when did Ohio have such a large diaspora?

Posted by bertie-bert

30 Comments

  1. RockRevolutionary291 on

    Suprised that there is no michigan considering it’s the 10th biggest us state in terms of population.

  2. This makes sense. During the height of covid, houses would sell in the Phoenix metro within a day or two. A for sale sign comes up, two days later a sold sign shows up. A month later there would be a u haul truck and a Tesla with a CA licence plate on it in front of the house.

    Edit: Jokes aside, very interesting map

  3. Most surprising for me is Ohio’s answer being West Virginia.

    West Virginia is just such a small state, and Ohio a big one. You would think Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, or Indiana would all send more people to Ohio than WV. Even Kentucky since the Cincinnati metro is shared between two states.

    Perhaps lots of people from WV move to Ohio for economic opportunities.

  4. I live in Missouri and have a neighbor from California and everyone just calls her “California” like it’s a slur.

  5. Isn’t the grey (the last color in the legend) just “other”? That’s the only colored label that’s inconsistent

  6. A lot of these can be explained with metro areas that spill over state lines. Meaning people aren’t necessarily moving outside their home metro area, but moving to a different part of town sends them across state lines:

    Wyoming – Front Range urban corridor spills over from Colorado

    Nebraska – Omaha metro is shared between Iowa and Nebraska

    Kansas – Kansas City metro is shared with Missouri

    Missouri and Illinois – share St. Louis metro with each other

    Mississippi – Memphis metro spills over from Tennessee

    Kentucky – Cincinnati metro spills over from Ohio

    North Dakota – Fargo metro is shared with Minnesota

    Indiana and Wisconsin – Chicago metro spills over from Illinois

    South Carolina – Charlotte metro spills over from North Carolina

    New Jersey and Connecticut – NYC metro spills over from NY

    Rhode Island and New Hampshire – Boston metro spills over from Massachusetts

    Maryland and Delaware – Philly metro spills over from Pennsylvania

  7. MysteriousTruck6740 on

    Texas people: I love oppressive heat and tornadoes in the summer and crippling ice storms in the winter, but I want everything else to be worse. What you got?

  8. How much of the dominance of California in the West is just explained by California being far and away the most populous state? Like even if people from Washington and people from California were moving to Texas at the exact same rate, that still means over 4 times as many Californians would end up in Texas

  9. We’re staying here in our misery in Alabama. You’re welcome, rest of the country. For not exporting ourselves and our bullshit.

  10. This gets posted a pretty often, a few of the states on the map are flat out wrong, and the color scheme is all jacked up. Downvote and move on.

  11. VoluptuousSloth on

    California is sending their people outward to sow chaos and destabilize governments, soon they will control everything west of the Mississippi and no one will dare challenge them

    And then they will turn our kids into gays!