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TexasTowelie

(117,577 posts) Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:08 PM Dec 2022

More than 30 million people now call Texas home as state leads US population gains

Texas gained more new residents than any other state in the country from summer 2021 to summer 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The figures come from a Census Bureau report released this week that documents population gains and declines over a 12-month period ending last July.

In total, Texas has seen an increase of 470,708 people over that time, the largest gain in terms of total numbers of any state in the nation. The population of Texas now sits at 30,029,572 people, according to the report.

In terms of percentage increase, Texas ranked fourth over the 12-month period, gaining 1.6%. It trailed Florida, Idaho, and South Carolina.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2022/12/23/texas-populaton-boom-30-million-people-according-us-census-bureau/69752038007/

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More than 30 million people now call Texas home as state leads US population gains (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2022 OP

WHY? catrose Dec 2022 #1

MAGA fleeing woke states LuvLoogie Dec 2022 #3

They get more Representatives and do more gerrymandering. It sucks. dem4decades Dec 2022 #2

Texas enid602 Dec 2022 #4

catrose

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1. WHY?

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Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:16 PM

Dec 2022

They can't all be straight cis white men, the only people with any rights in Texas. I would have thought that everyone who could flee would have after the Great Freeze of 2021, because omg look, it's the Great Freeze of 2022, no snow, but no power & gas either.