FROM NJ.com:

New Jersey residents are fleeing the state in droves, but the loss is primarily being offset by a continued influx of immigrants from other countries, without which the state’s population would be declining precipitously.

Between 2013 and 2014, New Jersey lost at least 55,000 residents who left for other states, the continuation of a trend that’s been going on for decades as people flee the state to retire, to seek a lower-cost of living and jobs in places that have been quicker to recover from the recession.

But in the same span, more than 51,000 people have moved to the Garden State from other countries, at the same time reshaping the state’s population and stabilizing its slow growth.

It’s the same thing that has spurred the state’s massive growth in the early part of the 20th century, but today, it’s preventing an exodus.

“This is really what we’d call a demographic long wave,” said James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. It’s been going on for a long time and it will continue to go on. The result is a sustained increase in diversity and population.”

— Comments —

Terry Morris writes:

Somewhat off the main point of your entry, I have written before of the migration to my state, Oklahoma, of people from the East and West Coasts. It concerns me very much because I know that these people are fleeing a state of affairs that they (more or less, depending) helped to create. Moreover, becoming a citizen of Oklahoma with full voting priveleges is very easy to do, and my experience with these migrants as a whole is that they immediately identify “faults” with Oklahoma
laws and policies which they go about to “correct” virtually from the moment of their arrival, thus effectively defeating their own purposes in fleeing their home state(s) to begin with. It is the reason I have said to numbers of them that “we’d appreciate it if you’d leave your politics at the border [especially those most near and dear to your heart]! Of course I realize that’s never going to happen, but I feel compelled to say it in any event. We have enough of our own “homegrown” fools and commies participating in state politics; we don’t need anyone else’s, thank you very much.

James P. writes:

In Virginia, I have started seeing a lot of New York plates. I detest them for the reason Terry Morris describes — they are going to vote for all the stupidities that destroyed the place they left.

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