61% of Texans native born in 2012

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

Only 3% of Texans were born in California. Kinda puts the lie to the often repeated rumor that Texas is being overrun by Californians moving here.

Originally Posted by rynetwo

That comes out to 12,000 new Californians that move here every year.

So what, 388,000 of the other people moving here are not from California. Seems like California is very small part of the problem.

Originally Posted by hound 109

Yeah...but 3/4ths of them are overrunning Greater Austin, which only has 1/20th of the state's population.

Can't swing a dead cat here in Austin without hitting a grapenuts eating Californian who's driving (without using their turn signal indicator) their Prius (with an Obama sticker) to their overrated TJs (or In & Out).

3/4's overrunning Austin? Where is your evidence of that? Sounds highly doubtful.

[Westerntraveler]

Originally Posted by Eastcoasting

But have you ever lived in another state?

Ive lived in Texas my whole life

[thenewtexan]

At 61%, Texas falls in the middle of the pack. What would be m ore interesting is if they broke it down by metro area. Newer areas in the major metros would probably be in the 30s and 40s.

[Eastcoasting]

Originally Posted by Westerntraveler

Ive lived in Texas my whole life

Same county?

[Westerntraveler]

Originally Posted by Eastcoasting

Same county?

Only two counties in my whole life.

[davis449]

Originally Posted by Texas Ag 93

I grew up in Texas and have lived in Denver for the past 2 years. Natives from Colorado are so unusual here, that they go out of their way to mention that there are from in-state. Almost everyone is from somewhere else and most have been here less than 10 years. Probably about 30% of the license plates are from out of state, and the license plate I see most often?? Texas, of course. I am not talking about only visitors driving on I-70 to the mountains, I mean people who live here full time and are out and about everywhere here in town.

Anyplace that has an attractive economy, climate and taxes (CO has a flat income tax of under 5%, which is not bad at all), is going to attract people from elsewhere. Texas is one great place to live right now, but there are others as well.

That's my parents. CO transplants from TX. This is year 10 for them in Denver. They keep trying to talk me into moving...I'm like "over my dead body".

[Texas Ag 93]

Originally Posted by davis449

That's my parents. CO transplants from TX. This is year 10 for them in Denver. They keep trying to talk me into moving...I'm like "over my dead body".

10 years, why there are officially "from" Colorado now!!

Denver is far and away the best city I have ever lived in. I love Texas and will always consider myself from there, but since moving away in 2001 at age 30, I have lived in several other places. One thing I have learned is that there are wonderful places all over this country, and no shortage of people who are proud of where they come from. Certain Texans seem to think they have a monopoly on this sense of pride, and get pretty defensive at any criticism of the state. Not sure why, exactly.