Fox News host Sean Hannity announced on his radio show that he has officially left New York in favor of the “free state of Florida.”
According to Fox News, he stated on Tuesday, “If anybody is listening to this program for any length of time, been threatening now to do this for quite a while, but we are now beginning our first broadcast of my new home, and that is in the free state of Florida.”
He continued, “I am out. I am done. I’m finished. New York, New York, goodbye. Florida, Florida, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But it’s great to be here.”
“And finally, for the first time that I can think of in my adult life, I actually have representatives in the state that I’m living in that share my values,” he added. “I have a governor by the name of Ron DeSantis and Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Rick Scott. So I’m feeling a lot better about it.”
Hannity then noted, “And I’m not going to go through the whys, the how comes, because it’s obvious this migration out of the blue states with high taxes, burdensome regulation, high crime, horrible school districts is real.”
“And if anything, I’m probably late and behind the curve and many others have made the move beforehand,” he concluded.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board released an op-ed describing the blue state exodus just last month.
The board noted that the U.S. population grew by 1.6 million between July 2022 and July 2023, but the most progressive states like New York, California, and Illinois saw sharp population decreases.
Meanwhile, notorious red states like Texas and Florida experienced heavy population booms.
Texas alone gained nearly half a million residents bringing in 473,453 people. Florida also saw hundreds of thousands of new residents flock to their state, amounting to 365,205 new residents.
This blue state exodus is illustrated in the WSJ op-ed which notes that eight typically blue states lost residents to other areas, with California having 338,371 residents move out — the most of any American state.
This is followed by New York, which had 216,778 residents relocate elsewhere, and led the state to see the largest overall population decline of 101,984, despite new births and the surge of illegal immigrants being shipped to the area.
