The “Harry Potter” books famously feature a sorting hat, a magical way of determining in which house Hogwarts students truly belong: Gryffindor? Slytherin? Last week, The Associated Press reported that Americans have no need for such sorcery to find the like-minded: Republicans ...
New Census Bureau numbers released last week reveal an unmistakable trend: High-tax blue states are losing residents to low-tax red states. Are elected officials listening? Each year, U.S. Census officials release an analysis of migration patterns. The most recent report — which looks at ...
The steady population decline has been an ongoing challenge for West Virginia. The number of residents has dropped from a peak of just over 2 million in 1950 to 1,782,959 as of July 1, 2021, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Census. The drop in population is the result of more ...
by Joel Kotkin America has been lazily divided by pundits into red and blue states, as if there weren’t constant movement of people between them. Fortunately, reality is a lot more purple — and hopeful — as immigrants, people of color and millennials reshape parts of America by ...