Census Shows Exodus Highest From Liberal States

CNN highlighted the 7 biggest losers in state population growth this past year, and as Robert Noon at The Examiner notes, all but one are run by liberals. Taxpayers are leaving in high numbers, meaning less income to already financially-strapped city coffers.

As usual, California topped off the list. Even including the illegal immigrants perpetually pouring into the state, it still managed to lose almost 100,000 more residents than it gained in the year ending July 1st.

New York, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio rounded off the top five. Ohio has been run by liberal Democrats for some time now, but residents actually started uprooting there in droves when the manufacturing sector collapsed (thanks to tax hikes, over-regulation, frivolous lawsuits, labor unions and everything else liberals support).

I'm not sure where our fair state rates, but the descriptors above are prevalent here with the possibility of losing a congressional district in 2012. Will our liberal leaders learn from these losses, or continue to chase businesses and residents away and hope for Democratic control in 2010?  Here are the election consequences:

If Democrats control redistricting, they probably would try to put Minnesota's three Republican U.S. House members — Reps. Michele Bachmann, John Kline and Erik Paulsen — into two suburban districts, forcing one of them out.

If Republicans were in charge, they likely would once again propose putting Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum in a single Minneapolis-St. Paul congressional district, which would cost one of them a seat.