Turns out that they publish a list of popular states by year - 2021? Texas
U-Haul Reveals Top 50 Growth States of 2021
Migration to southern states continues to be magnified by the lingering pandemic, and no state netted more U-Haul® customers during the last year than Texas.
The Lone Star State earned bragging rights as the leading growth state of 2021, narrowly besting Florida for tops honors, according to transactional data compiled for the annual U-Haul Growth Index.
Tennessee ranks third, South Carolina fourth and Arizona fifth among the top growth states.
Growth states are calculated by the net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks entering a state versus leaving that state in a calendar year. Migration trends data is compiled from well over 2 million one-way U-Haul truck customer transactions that occur annually.
California is 50th and Illinois 49th on the list for the second consecutive year, indicating those states once again witnessed the largest net losses of one-way U-Haul trucks.
There seems to be a continuing theme here - liberal v/s conservative governance. What people want and want it enough that they are willing to go through the social and economic upheaval of moving from one state to another one.
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