I’m not going to put much of the UL piece here on the Carsey Institute’s Demographic study but this gem I thought I’d share (reformatted, emphasis mine):
…But the truth is that only a third of New Hampshire residents over the age of 25 were born here, Johnson pointed out. “People are always just amazed by that.”…Consider migration patterns. New Hampshire has one of the most mobile populations in the nation; only five states and the District of Columbia have lower proportions of native-born residents, according to the report.
Between 2008 and 2015, an estimated 246,000 people moved out of New Hampshire, according to Johnson. And while some have returned, about 201,000 folks of voting age did not. Meanwhile, about 247,000 people moved into the state from elsewhere in the United States, and an estimated 197,000 of them who are of voting age have stayed.
Together, that’s a change of about 398,000 potential voters — in an electorate of just over 1 million.
So, there may be a bit of truth that those “flatlanders” have changed NH from being a solid Conservative state after all.
(H/T: Union Leader)
