California Texas migration

…the federal government calculated the Texas poverty rate as 18.4% for 2010 and that of California as about 16%. That may sound bad for Texas, but once adjustments are made for the different costs of living across the two states, as the federal government does in its Supplemental Poverty Measure, Texas’ poverty rate drops to 16.5% and California’s spikes to a dismal 22.4%. Not surprisingly, it is the lower-income residents who are most likely to leave California. - Marginal Revolution

California is like a massive Ellis Island. It accepts the nation's poor, then pre-processes them. Those deemed capable are sent to Texas, the rest enter the California Public Sector Gulag.