[81alum]

Well, perhaps  it's not a slam dunk, Publius.

http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfounda..._large.png

If you believe the oh-so-reliable Wikipaedia (I don't generally :D), the Tax Foundation bills itself as a non-partisan think tank, but is a unit of "Citizens for a Sound Economy" which is a political group whose mission is "to fight for less government, lower taxes, and less regulation."  The Tax Foundation itself was founded by a group of corporate executives during the Great Depression to resist the New Deal. 

With regard to the stats themselves, the full database is online here:
http://interactive.taxfoundation.org/migration/
but something is screwy in the California numbers.  It keeps coming up 0 when I try to isolate California's stats.  Still, it is an interesting database and I thank you Garvin for pointing me to it. 

In Gerston's book (I have referenced before) there is an extensive analysis of California's out-migration.  The upshot of that analysis is that the lion's share of out migration is by working class people driven out by high housing prices, while high income people overwhelmingly stay in California.  I am not sure how that squares with this conservative group's numbers, but I suspect there is more to the story.  It would be fun to nose around their methodology.

[81alum]

Well, perhaps  it's not a slam dunk, Publius.

http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfounda..._large.png

If you believe the oh-so-reliable Wikipaedia (I don't generally :D), the Tax Foundation bills itself as a non-partisan think tank, but is a unit of "Citizens for a Sound Economy" which is a political group whose mission is "to fight for less government, lower taxes, and less regulation."  The Tax Foundation itself was founded by a group of corporate executives during the Great Depression to resist the New Deal. 

With regard to the stats themselves, the full database is online here:
http://interactive.taxfoundation.org/migration/
but something is screwy in the California numbers.  It keeps coming up 0 when I try to isolate California's stats.  Still, it is an interesting database and I thank you Garvin for pointing me to it. 

In Gerston's book (I have referenced before) there is an extensive analysis of California's out-migration.  The upshot of that analysis is that the lion's share of out migration is by working class people driven out by high housing prices, while high income people overwhelmingly stay in California.  I am not sure how that squares with this conservative group's numbers, but I suspect there is more to the story.  It would be fun to nose around their methodology.