Despite Golden State Officials’ Effort To Demonize Red States, Californians Are Moving To Them In Droves

Despite Golden State Officials’ Effort To Demonize Red States, Californians Are Moving To Them In Droves

Between 2018 and 2019 alone, California saw a net outflow of 75,117 people to the 17 states to which ... [+] state government travel has been banned. Those former Californians took $4,722,021,000 in annual income with them to their new home states.

The state of California now prohibits state employee business travel to 17 states, with five new states added to that list this week by Attorney General Rob Bonta (D). Attorney General Bonta, continuing the practice of his predecessor, now Health and Human Services Department Secretary Xavier Becerra, added Florida, Montana, West Virginia, North Dakota, and Arkansas to the list of states to which California government employees are forbidden to travel on official business, except under special circumstances.