Something I notice is that the country as a whole is becoming a whole lot more like those states no-one wants to live in (e.g. New York, New Jersey, California

Something I notice is that the country as a whole is becoming a whole lot more like those states no-one wants to live in (e.g. New York, New Jersey, California & Illinois) and a whole lot less like those states people want to be in (e.g. Texas). That doesn't seem good.