My biased summary: Unsurprisingly, a report by the right-wing “Manhattan Institute” takes extreme joy in the 2010 Census numbers showing New York State “losing”

My biased summary: Unsurprisingly, a report by the right-wing “Manhattan Institute” takes extreme joy in the 2010 Census numbers showing New York State “losing” 1.6MM people, declining in population from 18.97MM people in 2000 to a new low of 19.38MM people in 2010. This is clearly because of New York State's high tax structure, loose liberal morals, and socialist subsidy culture and has nothing to do with multiple recessions, the unfortunate incident of September 11, 2001, nor a federal revenue system which sucks tax revenue out of urban areas and sends them to rural areas or a state education system which penalizes urban areas with a lower reimbursement rate per student than in suburban or rural areas. -- These studies always conflate New York State and New York City. Upstate New York is dying and has been for several decades. There are many reasons for that, taxes may well be one reason. New York City has a constant flow of people into and out of the city, and certainly post 9/11 many people left for many reasons, some economic, some out of fear, others out of pain and anguish.