Census: U. S. citizens, not immigrants, lead Texas growth

[last_texas_dem]

Other states fueling most Texas growth
Fellow citizens move here seeking jobs at same time immigration from outside U.S. falls
By MIKE SNYDER

>>>>More people are moving to Texas from other states than from other countries as the state's relatively strong employment base attracts families struggling with foreclosures and layoffs elsewhere, the Census Bureau reported Monday.
Between July 2007 and July 1, 2008, nearly 141,000 people moved to Texas from other states, compared with about 92,000 international migrants, the bureau said.

The data provide a fresh indicator of how longstanding immigration patterns into Texas are changing.
In the early years of this decade, international migration into Texas was two to three times as great as domestic, but the trend reversed starting in 2006.

Much of Texas' international migration historically hails from Mexico and Central America, where immigrants fled poor conditions. But the surging domestic migration into the Lone Star State is now likely to come from economically depressed states such as Michigan, which lost about 46,000 residents between July 2007 and July 1, 2008.

Texas gained 484,000 residents last year, more than any other state. In percentage growth, Texas' 2 percent tied for third with North Carolina and Colorado behind Utah, 2.5 percent, and Arizona, 2.3 percent.
Domestic migration in Texas last year was almost three times what it was in 2005. It peaked in 2006, when an influx of Louisiana residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina contributed to about 220,000 Texas domestic migrants.>>>>

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6178409.html

Pretty interesting article... although the majority of the user comments after the piece make me wonder why so many out-of-staters would want to live amongst our state's high asshole population?! haha

[sonias]

1. I welcome them

Maybe we can dilute the stupid quotient in TX with new blood from other states. Whatever it takes to make some progress here.

Most posters on MSM sites are the wingers. It's not just the Houston Chronicle, it happens on the Austin America Statesman site too, no matter the story. They don't have many good web boards so they take over the news sites and expose their stupidity frequently.
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Sonia