California just lost more residents to Texas than any other state in the country for the sixth straight year.
Now Abbott is taking that record to Miami – and making the case that the red state model isn't a fluke.
The two governors meeting today have something Democrats can't explain away.
Texas Record Jobs Hit 14 Million and the Business Climate Democrats Hate Is Why
Texas added 40,100 jobs in January alone – hitting a new all-time record of 14,379,500 total nonfarm jobs, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.
That's not a recovery. That's dominance.
Over the past year, Texas gained 112,200 jobs, outpacing the national annual growth rate while states like California and Illinois kept hemorrhaging residents.
Abbott put it plainly at last week's Forward Fort Worth summit: "Almost any industry that you can think of, Texas is already leading in."
He wasn't exaggerating.
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Texas landed at least $50 billion in planned data center investments since November alone.
Google – the company that spent years funding left-wing causes and DEI programs – is now cutting ribbons in Texas, because Abbott made it worth their while.
Abbott's line captures the whole philosophy: "Texas moves at the speed of business."
Meanwhile in Sacramento, Gavin Newsom is floating a 5% wealth tax on billionaires – and watching them pack their bags in real time.
The U-Haul Data on Moving to Texas From California Says Everything
The U-Haul Growth Index doesn't care about party platforms.
It tracks 2.5 million one-way moving transactions a year, and in 2025 it handed Texas the top spot for the seventh time in ten years.
Arrivals in Texas accounted for 50.7% of all one-way traffic into the state.
Florida came in right behind at number two – DeSantis's Florida – with 50.6% inbound.
The bottom of the list reads like a Democratic Party donor roster: California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts.
California ranked dead last for the sixth consecutive year.
Nine of the top ten growth states voted Republican in the last presidential election.
Nine of the bottom ten have Democratic governors.
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Heritage Foundation research confirmed it: people are proving which model works "by getting one-way tickets out of blue states."
Census Bureau data matches. From July 2024 to July 2025, the top five destination states were all red – North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Arizona.
The five states bleeding the population the hardest are all blue.
This Is What Abbott and DeSantis Are Actually Showing the Country
Abbott and DeSantis standing together in Miami isn't just a photo op.
It's a two-governor tutorial on what low taxes, controlled spending, and a pro-business regulatory environment actually produce.
No income tax. No wealth tax. No DEI mandates strangling hiring decisions.
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Just jobs – 14.3 million of them in Texas, and Florida generating nearly 13% of all new American jobs since 2020 while representing only 6.5% of the U.S. population.
Democrats have been running California, New York, and Illinois for decades.
The people who actually live there have been voting with their feet for just as long.
When Abbott says "if you are not in Texas, get here quickly" – he's not selling a bumper sticker.
He's reading the migration data out loud.
Sources:
- Texas Governor's Office, "Texas Hits New Historic High For Total Jobs," gov.texas.gov, April 6, 2026.
- Texas Workforce Commission, January 2026 Labor Market Data, twc.texas.gov, April 2026.
- U-Haul, "U-Haul Growth Index: Texas Back on Top as No. 1 Growth State of 2025," uhaul.com, January 5, 2026.
- Fox Business, "Exodus Accelerates as Tech Titans and Companies Flee Blue States," foxbusiness.com, April 2026.
- Heritage Foundation, "Why Are Americans Fleeing Blue States for Red States?" heritage.org, February 13, 2026.
- Fox 7 Austin, "Texas Jobs: Final 2025 Workforce Numbers Show Above-Average Growth," fox7austin.com, February 3, 2026.
