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When I lived in West Tennessee, I noticed that there were a ton of people with ties to Illinois. I'm sure it has to do with people moving up north to find work, now you see their kids/grandkids coming back. I would suspect that it is the same phenomenon for Alabama.
The major recipients of Illini would be Indiana, Florida, California, Missouri, Texas, and Wisconsin, all which usually draw over 20,000 annually. Alabama is usually around 50th percentile with around 2500 (about around Mississippi). So it’s doing better than Louisiana and Arkansas among Southern states, but I wouldn’t say Alabama is a major magnet for Illini.
I live in Birmingham, on the southern fringe of the city. Illinois tags in profusion of late. I don't think the migration was in time for the 2020 Census, but it has become a torrent over the past year. New York, New Jersey, and CA, too.
Alabama is an outlier, as they’ve cut state support so much to their universities that tuition is of an outsized importance to the school. Namely out-of-state tuition. They are one of the few state universities in the South where in-state students are a striking minority of the students at the school.
So from an Alabaman perspective, it perhaps seems unique. But again, look at Illinois-to-Mississippi numbers over that time. It’s similar if not more. That’s before considering Illinois-to-any random number of states. The fact is there is a deluge of people leaving Illinois this past decade, and most states have benefited from it. Alabama is not an outlier in that aspect.
The major recipients of Illini would be Indiana, Florida, California, Missouri, Texas, and Wisconsin, all which usually draw over 20,000 annually. Alabama is usually around 50th percentile with around 2500 (about around Mississippi). So it’s doing better than Louisiana and Arkansas among Southern states, but I wouldn’t say Alabama is a major magnet for Illini.
I frankly wouldn't trust those numbers as those are 2019 numbers, and well, the census had obviously been wrong about Alabama's growth by nearly 50% for the past 10 years. So its very much possible that, just like how they underestimated the population, they could've also underestimated the migration rate
Last edited by Surge0001; 10-11-2021 at 02:12 PM..
I didn't know people were leaving Illinois in droves in general. Purely anecdotal, but it our housing search we met a lot more people from there than anywhere else and not one person from Denver or Colorado where we live
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