The prices for Los Angeles, CA to Cheyenne, WY are below. The Penske price has come down a little, but the U-Haul price is holding. Consequently, the U-Haul price was in the $3,000 range for Rancho Cordova, CA to Cheyenne, WY, which was about $4,400 when we moved in 2020. Just before COVID we rented a 26 ft Penske with car hauler for $2,295. This is a lot of money to leave if you do it yourself and we know most of the population lives paycheck to paycheck, and a lot more money to have a moving company do it for you. You’d have to think the purposeful mismanaging of blue states is to flood other states with residents, who will change voting demographics. And if nothing else you decrease your conservative voting block in those blue states allowing even more liberalism, and frankly the stealing of tax money as that seems to be the only thing Demonrats do well, up into the billions for homelessness, daycares…
By Tyler Durden
Moving company U-Haul has released its annual migration ranking, which continues to show a sustained outflow from high-tax, crime-ridden, Democrat-run states toward lower-tax states where law and order are cherished.
Right off the bat, the report’s authors note that “Florida ranks 2nd for net gain of one-way customers; California last for sixth year in a row.”
U-Haul just released its annual “Growth Index” for all 50 states. For the 6th straight year, California is ranked 50th. We have the highest rate of people moving out versus moving in.
Newsom has turned the greatest state in the country into the most popular state to leave. — Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) January 6, 2026
The U-Haul Growth Index compares one-way truck and trailer rentals into a state versus out of a state, allowing researchers to calculate net migration, which reflects relocation trends nationwide.
This real-time tracker shows that Texas reclaimed the title of the No. 1 growth state for the seventh time in a decade. Florida ranked No. 2, followed by North Carolina at No. 3, Tennessee at No. 4, and South Carolina at No. 5. The common denominator among these states is that politicians are considered more based and grounded in reality than the far-left activists running blue states into the ground (cough, cough Tim Walz).
Conversely, the behavior-based migration indicator shows that blue states such as California ranked dead last – in other words, more people left than arrived. Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Maryland also landed at the bottom of the list. The common denominator among these states is that their political leadership focuses on being left-wing activists rather than proper stewardship of their respective states.
“Blue-to-red state migration, a hotly debated political topic that became more pronounced after the pandemic of 2020, continues to be a discernable trend,” U-Haul wrote in the report.