America may not be a nation of immigrants, but California almost certainly is. From before it was a state to today, California has faced ever-larger waves of migrants. That began to shift in the 1990s as domestic migration turned negative, but California was still buoyed by the seemingly never-ending stream of international immigrants who moved to the Golden State for their slice of the good life. Then, around 2017, even international immigration couldn’t stem the tide, and net migration turned negative for the first time.
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