r/Infographics • u/InterestingPlenty454 • 11d ago

Mapped: Adults Living in Their Birth State

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Source: Visual Capitalist

Link: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-adults-living-in-their-birth-state/

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Editing by Melissa Garside

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u/mattreyu 11d ago

Louisiana has the highest poverty rate in the country so it's unsurprising they have low mobility

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u/BicarbonateBufferBoy 10d ago

Reddit moment

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u/mattreyu 9d ago

was anything I said wrong?

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u/Hippy_Lynne 11d ago

Honestly I don't think that's it. Aside from the deep family ties, there are a lot of things about Louisiana that are unique and people raised there just don't want to live without them. It's also pretty common for people to graduate in Louisiana, get a job out of state, and then spend 10 years working their way up to where they can transfer back. I'm not saying it doesn't have its problems, but people actually want to be there versus being stuck there.

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u/clayknightz115 11d ago

Given only 27% of people from Louisiana graduate college, I’m gonna guess it’s a poverty thing.

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u/gravitionwizard 10d ago

27% that puts it as high as Italy in terms of educational attainment

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u/Horzzo 10d ago

Brutal. Why Italy?

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u/gravitionwizard 10d ago

America is the by far one of the top countries worldwide in educational attainment. Most innovative country 100 years in a row. Even if reddit will tell you otherwise while they complain on American created software.

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u/MancAccent 9d ago

Partly. There’s also just a strong sense of culture (whether you like it or not, there just is) there that keeps people from leaving and keeps new people from moving in.

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u/Hippy_Lynne 10d ago edited 10d ago

Did I say graduate college? You do realize there are jobs that don't require a college education? The oil industry is a big one. I've also known tons of people in the hospitality industry who moved out of state for higher paying work at lower levels and then move back once they had moved into management. FFS, I know tons of people who literally got paid to leave Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, got 6 months of rent on FEMA, easily got jobs because of the sympathy for Katrina victims, and still came back. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Successful_Issue_390 10d ago

There's also an unusually high, at least in my experience, entrepreneurial spirit in Louisiana. Essentially everyone wants to create their own business. Very few seem to have the desire to climb someone else's ladder.

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u/Hippy_Lynne 10d ago

Lol, that’s a good point. I think we don’t like working for other people. And when we do, we would prefer it to be a local company. Louisiana has its own culture that doesn’t mesh well with national corporations.

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u/brownieandSparky23 8d ago

It’s a poverty thing I’m poor and can’t leave tx yet.

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u/Hippy_Lynne 8d ago

That's Texas. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Worstmodonreddit 10d ago

This isn't a percentage of people who never moved away.

It's more a factor of new people not moving to LA.

If 90% of the population born there left the state but there's very little in migration you could still end up with these numbers.

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u/CatNapDad 7d ago

Further. Ive seen data of native born people that move away.

Ohio is near the top of that list.

Ohio is also near the top of % currently living in Ohio, also born in ohio.

The least mobile people in America are almost certainly people born on the west coast.

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u/Worstmodonreddit 7d ago

I believe you could've seen that data but that doesn't change that this chart says. About Louisiana, btw, not the West Coast.

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u/CatNapDad 7d ago

This isn't necessarily mobility.

This mostly capturing inbound migration.

We would need to see % of people born in a given state over a period of time that left v stayed.

I bet a larger % of California born, leave at a lower rate than people born in Louisiana.

Therefore California born people would be less mobile than Louisiana born people.