Flutterby™! : Atlas Shrugged: Red State edition

Atlas Shrugged: The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now. — As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.

The precise effect of all this on the brain drain is hard to tease out from migration statistics because the Dobbs decision is still fairly new, and because red states were bleeding college graduates even before the culture war heated up. The only red state that brings in more college graduates than it sends elsewhere is Texas. But the evidence is everywhere that hard-right social policies in red states are making this dynamic worse.