California's population grows to 37.9 million

[alp227]

Source: SF Chronicle

California's population grew to 37.9 million last year, and though the rate of growth was small, counties in the Bay Area led the state in the rate of new residents moving in, according to a report by the state Department of Finance.

The report, released Wednesday, found that California's population increased by 0.8 percent, though San Francisco, Alameda and San Mateo counties all had growth above 1 percent. Santa Clara led all 58 counties in the rate of population growth, doubling the state rate at 1.6 percent.

Job growth and housing construction in the Bay Area were the contributing factors to the population increases, said John Malson, assistant chief of demographic research at the Department of Finance.

He said the growth is happening in cities and not in suburban areas, as was the case before the recession.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-s-population-grows-to-37-9-million-4480348.php

[adieu]

1. So what's all this claim

that people are fleeing California because of Jerry Brown's high tax policies? We're getting more jobs and more people in CA. Where are they fleeing?

Rent in SF is rising very quickly. If people can afford $3000/month studios, they're not being paid the low wages.

[davidn3600]

2. But California also has the highest homeless population in the country

San Francisco and L.A. have big problems with homeless.

[Xithras]

5. The article addresses that.

Domestically California is still losing population in one category. The population growth is driven by new births and foreign immigration. As far as domestic migration goes, California had a net loss of 66,000 people last year (66,000 more Americans moved out of California than moved into it).

That's pretty consistent with California's historical demographic trends. This has state has always been heavily dominated by immigrants. The only thing that has changed is the starting point of those immigrants (we've had waves of Irish immigrants, Chinese immigrants, Dust Bowl immigrants, and now Hispanic immigrants, each flooding the state at various points in history).

[tblue]

13. Texas, the exploding factory state

How's that for a slogan?

[Downtown Hound]

3. Can't be. Gov. Perry told me that everybody was leaving this state to

avoid our oppressive taxation. Hmmm....Republicans wouldn't lie. Would they?

[russspeakeasy]

4. There are fewer than 200 people left in California...

Perry is quite the salesman.

[tblue]

12. Nobody goes there anymore

It's too crowded.

-Yogi Berra

[Melinda]

11. Why just yesterday, a teabagger (here in CA) told me Californians are flocking to Texas!

And that he and his family are moving to El Paso this summer. He actually said "flocking to Texas". I replied "birds of a feather" and wished him good luck. He's sure to rebut this news as made up by the librul media, don'tcha know!

[davidpdx]

6. Headline: California Tips into the Ocean

Damn it was just a dream.............

Ps-I was born there, but disown it every chance I get.

[boilinmad]

14. Headline: California Haters, Disown This.

You're right, California is really terrible. That's why people who can live any place in the entire world, choose to live in the hell hole known as California. Horrible weather and all those ugly mountains, beaches, and deserts.

[davidpdx]

17. Yes, and all the smog, traffic and crime you can handle

At least in the more popular areas. Don't get me wrong, I like to visit, but would never live there.

[cali]

7. That's 36.3 million more people than live in my state

[theHandpuppet]

8. Yeah, but 36.3 million fewer people...

... can marry in California than in your state. I know where I'd rather live!

[Jennicut]

16. I forget how small my state is sometimes.

I live in CT and we have about 3.5 million. But that is a lot compared to VT. When I've been to VT or NH, the states feel empty! At least you don't have our traffic congestion problems. Being stuck on 95 or 84 is not fun.

[thucythucy]

9. And yet California, with close to 38 million people, gets the same number of senators

as Wyoming, with less than 600,000.

Our constitutional system is skewed to give red states a hugely disproportionate amount of political power. Hence the current gridlock on any progressive legislation, even if it's favored by the vast majority of the US population.

[cali]

10. and Vermont and Maryland and Delaware and RI and several other small blue states

[thucythucy]

15. I wouldn't call Maryland a "small state"

except in terms of geography. In population, it's one of the most densely populated states in the Union, and with 5,884,000 people still has many many times the population of Wyoming.

Likewise, though Delaware is small in size, its population is almost a million.

And the thoroughly blue District of Columbia, with a population of 632,000, has no representation in the Senate at all. What was that slogan? Oh yeah. "Taxation without representation is tyranny."

I still think the way our Senate is structured is undemocratic, and responsible for much of our trouble today.

[Psephos]

18. You haven't read the Federalist Papers, I take it. n/t

[thucythucy]

19. I have actually, though it's been a while.

Your point being?