Southern States Gain Most from Domestic Migration in 2023: Census

While foreign immigrants continue to drive the overall population growth of the United States this past year, the red states gained new residents primarily by attracting hundreds of thousands of Americans from other parts of the country, the latest national census data suggest. According to estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, the country added 1.6 million people from July 2022 to July 2023, pushing the overall population size to 334.9 million, a slight 0.5 percent uptick from the year earlier. Foreign immigrants account for more than two-thirds of the 1.6 million population surplus, the federal agency said. This marks the second year in a row that immigration powered America’s population gains....