‘Where We Came From, State by State’

I love these visualizations but I can’t say this is really my favorite. I’d love something a little more geographical?

Gregor Aisch, Robert Gebeloff, and Kevin Quealy, writing for Upshot in the NYT:

The patterns of migration continue to change. California, shown above, has long been the destination of American dreamers from other states. It no longer plays that role; residents are leaving for greener pastures out East. Today, the state is still pulling in foreign immigrants, but the percentage of American-born transplants has shrunk significantly as more people leave the state. There are now about 6.8 million California natives living elsewhere, up from 2.7 million in 1980.