ILLINOIS: We're Number One, Again!

Gallup has some interesting new poll results out. They asked residents of all 50 states whether they are unhappy enough to want to move out of state.

Every state has at least some residents who are looking for greener pastures, but nowhere is the desire to move more prevalent than in Illinois and Connecticut. In both of these states, about half of residents say that if given the chance to move to a different state, they would like to do so. Maryland is a close third, at 47%.

I added the blue for a reason. David Freddoso explains:

I find it fascinating that seven of the top eight — all but foreclosure-plagued Nevada — are wealthy and thoroughly liberal bastions, followed by two of the poorest states in the U.S. to round out the top ten.

Illinois, by the way, is also number one for residents who think their state is the worst of all.

I think it was Mark Levin who first noted that Democrats are like locusts. They destroy a state and then, having sufficiently eradicated growth and opportunity, move on to the next. New York-to-Connecticut and Maryland-to-Virginia serving as archetypes.


Hat tip: BadBlue News