Why are Americans fleeing Democratic states?

Newsweek spoke to Peter Rogerson in an article on the rapid population growth in some of the most prominent Republican states in the union, while several of their Democratic counterparts have seen their populations fall, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data. The main reasons for this migration trend is due to politics, cost of living and crime. Rogerson believes that these migration trends are not a direct impact from crime rates, but are a result of many democratic states having a much higher housing rate, while population rises in parts of the Southeast increase due to “the aging of the baby boom and increased retirement migration," with retirees seeking out "warmer climates." Rogerson states, “Crime does not usually come up in these lists of reasons for changing state of residence, but cost of living (which includes taxation) is on the list.”