California Reports First-Ever Population Drop
California’s population boom is over.
The state, whose population growth began with the Gold Rush of the 1840s and whose sun-splashed image inspired a mythic reputation of glamour around the world, reported a loss of 182,000 people in 2020.
It was the first-ever year-to-year decline for the nation’s most populous state, according to state officials reported in local media.
The city of Los Angeles alone lost 52,000 people in 2020. The population bust will cost California one of its national-most 53 congressional seats.
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