Welcome to Vote With Your Feet
Vote With Your Feet explores the movement of people—and their money—across the United States, using data primarily sourced from the IRS. Each year, individuals make choices about where to live, and those choices have powerful implications for the economic and political landscape of every state.
Vote with Your Feet helps make those trends visible.
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Which States Are People and Money Moving To and From?
Each year, people "vote with their feet" by moving across state lines. These migration patterns have important implications for state economies.
The data is broken out by net values and by percentage change, demonstrating the greatest impact both from a raw numbers standpoing and from a proportional standpoint.
Which states benefit most from domestic migration, and which ones are most hurt?
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Latest Research & Writing
Blue-to-Red Tax Migration, Part VI
11.12.2025
I lied. Back in 2023, I wrote that Part V would be the last segment in my series on blue-to-red tax migration (with Parts I-IV available here, here, here, and here). Read More
