The migration patterns of Americans over the years are pretty telling.  Americans are leaving states that have high taxes and forced union membership for states with lower taxes and right-to-work laws.  This confounds libs and progs.  They just can’t understand why people, businesses and wealth are repelled by higher taxes and forced unionization.  So their solution was to have a liberal think tank work on this issue.  Somewhere, somehow a different explanation for these migrations had to be created.  It just can’t be taxes, and it certainly can’t be the wonderful unions … so come up with another reason!  And so they did.  The reason people move from high tax, forced union states to low tax, right-to-work states is because of ….. (are you ready?) …… the weather!  Yeah!  That’s it!  The weather! 

Are you kidding me?  As this analysis in the Daily Caller points out, if weather were the driving force behind American migration, then Hawaii and California would be overrun by eager Americans looking for a tan.  But that isn’t the case.  What IS the case is that people have been going to places like Florida: Better weather but, you guessed it, zero income taxes and a right-to-work state!  Coincidence?  I think not. 

Over the last decade, on net, more than 4.2 million individuals have moved out of the 10 states with the highest state and local tax burdens (measured as a percentage of personal income). Conversely, during the same period, more than 2.8 million Americans migrated to the 10 states with the lowest tax burdens. Put differently, every day on average — weekends and holidays included — 1,265 individuals left the high-tax states, nearly one a minute.

The libs and progs can try and justify this any way they would like, but until they come to grips with what is really driving people, they will only continue to drive Americans to states which allow for more economic prosperity.