For a hundred years, Americans have been moving south and west. This, with an occasional hiccup, has continued, according to the 2010 Census.During the 2000s, 84 percent of the nation's population growth was in the states of the South and West (see Census region and division map below), while growth has been far slower in the Northeast and Midwest. This follows a pattern now four decades old, in which more than 75 percent of the nation's population growth has been in the South and West. Indeed in every census period since the 1920s the South and West attracted a majority of the population growth.
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Author: Wendell Cox
