this is just my perspective, but i think you’re basically right: Nevada DEFINITELY encourages people to move here (no state taxes is a huge incentive, and also the very friendly business environment, tax-wise). There’s not anything that i know of that actively encourages those born here to leave, it’s just that i think people leave to see what the rest of the country has to offer. there’s only a few larger metropolitan areas (Reno/Sparks/Carson City, and Vegas), and the rest are all small rural towns, so that’s probably the largest locally-born population. As for Utah, i agree that it’s the large Mormon population there, with their stay-at-home values, that keeps their population of native-born residents more stable. Nevada has always been pretty transient by comparison.
Of course, lest we forget, once you’re out the front door, you’re still in the middle of the f***ing desert!
– Reuben Tishkoff
Something else I found while poking through similar data1 is that Nevada has a relatively high proportion of foreign-born residents. In all years available in this series, NV was ranked 5th or 6th in percentage of foreign-born population.2 So I’m guessing foreign-born workers (casinos? ranches?) and their foreign-born families make up a big part of the born-elsewhere cohort. Here’s a ranked chart for 2023:
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ACS State of Residence by Place of Birth Flows, single-year data for 2010, 2013-2019, 2021-2023.
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Other states in the top 6 for these years are California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Hawaii.
Reading this post about a historic Black town made me wonder about maps, and this one looked interesting:
I looked for Allensworth, CA and it was there!
My spouse once wove a giant version of the Bünting map out of recycled fabric:
ETA a close-up of Jerusalem, made of felt:
(It’s stored in our basement)
That is gorgeous!
frikkin’ awesome, man!
i am wow!
i know nothing of the source, but i note that florida and georgia appear to have swapped places!
unless that’s part of the joke…
looks like portland and seattle are in montana and texass has swallowed utah!
I wonder why St Paul has a Drinking Bird?
The easy-to-use getaway
Planning a getaway? Maps can help! (but maybe not old maps)