Just to add on to this because this is a good response: the chart is showing it as a % change and Idaho is ranked 37th in population with 2 million. The #1 spot is California with around 40 million so for Idaho to see an increase of 1.5%, only 0.075% of Californians would need to move there.

Anecdotally, I know of cases of Californians moving to most of the states nearby, except the PNW. I don’t think it’s crazy to see that bump in Idaho as a result of the chuds and petite bourgeois exodus from the west coast neo lib regime.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think a big problem is if politics is involved polling can be questionable. I bet a lot of right-wing people lie to pollsters. So they if they say they moved to Idaho for "the climate" or the "lower cost of living" - that might be a white lie or a bigger lie. The MSM is addicted to polling because it generates ez clicks (and pageviews) plus polling is fast, easy, and cheap. The MSM tends not to have local reporter investigative journalism because that's far slower, far harder, and more complex.