![]() “Now, we’re dominated by the South and West.” “We’re a country that, over our course of history, moved from an East Coast country to a West Coast country,” Frey said. North Carolina (9.94 million) moved past Michigan (9.9 million) into the ninth spot and Georgia, eighth-largest, just hit the 10 million mark for the first time. The new estimates show population shifts from the North to all corners of the South and West. “This puts an exclamation point on the Sun Belt growth of the last half century,” said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution and author of the book “Diversity Explosion.” One hundred years ago, Florida was the smallest state in the South. ![]() It’s a milestone for Florida in that it reflects many years of rapid growth.” “But I think it’s a very important signal. “I don’t think rankings per se mean a lot,” said Stanley Smith, a demographer in the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Florida. It’s good news for the Sunshine State, which suffered net migration loss from 2007 to 2009 at the peak of the Great Recession - when more people left the state than moved in. More people move to Florida from New York than from any other state. In an ironic twist, Florida has New York partly to thank for its steady growth. Now, the nation’s three largest states are in the South and West - California (38.8 million), Texas (27 million) and Florida (19.9 million) - according to Jpopulation estimate released Tuesday by the Census Bureau. Florida has surpassed New York as the third most populous state in the United States, a milestone that solidifies the Sun Belt’s growing dominance and continues a powerful demographic trend that has shaped much of the nation’s population growth for more than 60 years.
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