When black Americans choose where to live, they choose GOP-run Texas, Florida, and Georgia | Washington Examiner
And if you like Georgia, Texas, or Florida, it s probably because you re a white racist who likes white supremacist policies, the narrative goes.
It might be jarring, then, for these New York-based commentators to open an ideologically friendly news outlet in Austin and see this headline: People of color make up 95% of Texas population growth.
Texas gained the most black people, nearly 700,000, of any state in the country. Georgia and Florida were second and third place, increasing their black populations by 450,000 and 390,000, respectively. All three states were governed by Republican governors with Republican-run legislatures throughout the decade. Texas saw its black population grow by 23% while Georgia and Florida saw 15% and 13% growth respectively.
The largest Democrat-run states, New York, Illinois, and California, saw nothing of the sort. Illinois s black population shrunk. California and New York saw such small black population growth that black people became even smaller minorities in those states.
To be sure, Florida also saw its non-Hispanic black population shrink relative to the entire population, but only because the state added 1.47 million Hispanics over the decade.
In short, if you were a person of color in the United States over the past decade, especially a black person, looking to move or have children, the GOP-run states of Texas, Florida, and Georgia were the most attractive places to live.
Surely this suggests that conservative Republican governance creates desirable conditions for nonwhite Americans.