The just released Census report shows that the highest cost of living states are the states with higher costs and the highest outmigration of people and their money. Funny how that happens!

The biggest magnets for in-bound domestic migration last year were North and South Carolina, which also happen to be two of the three lowest states in union membership. At the other end of the spectrum are the dysfunctional big blue states.

Here is the same table as a map, showing that low union membership is another key regional advantage of America’s booming region, the South: