The numbers are in: red states are winning – The Spectator World
Suddenly, Americans weren t packing up the moving truck because they had to for a job, but because they wanted to. Remote work allowed many workers to move to Red States, not because of political preferences, but for financial and lifestyle reasons cheaper housing, better weather, less traffic, and lower taxes, as the Wall Street Journal recently explained. They also enjoyed fewer pandemic-related restrictions, such as the school closures that set back a generation of students in Democrat-leaning jurisdictions. Crucially, Americans could live where they wanted without sacrificing opportunity indeed, because they had a better future elsewhere.
Red states now have more people at work than before the pandemic as they recover faster economically than their blue state peers. Tennessee enjoyed the highest inflation-adjusted GDP growth in America last year while the state s unemployment sank to an all-time low. Democrat-run states, by contrast, have collectively lost roughly 1.3 million jobs since the start of the pandemic more than two and a half years ago. Moody s Back to Normal Index shows eight out of ten states at the bottom for their economy, jobs, retail sales, and home listings are all deep blue.
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