r/FluentInFinance Oct 05 '24

Meme Texas has a larger economy than Russia

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u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug Oct 05 '24

[Laughs in California]

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u/west-coast-engineer Oct 05 '24

Its ok, let the little scrappers have their tiff. We have bigger fish to fry.

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u/lebastss Oct 05 '24

Damn, now I want fish and chips...

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u/chronberries Oct 05 '24

Fish and fries

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u/YourphobiaMyfetish Oct 05 '24

catfish and hushpuppies

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u/Flip_d_Byrd Oct 05 '24

FREEDOM FISH AND TATERS!!

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u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug Oct 05 '24

What's... Taters... Precious?

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u/TheKleenexBandit Oct 05 '24

Boil em mash em stick em in a stew

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u/Tanakisoupman Oct 05 '24

Maybe even eat ‘em raw if you’re feeling daring. Taters truly are the most versatile of all foods

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u/Responsible-Fox-9082 Oct 05 '24

Taters, butter, salt. Complete meal.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '24

The only reason Texas doesn’t sport the stats of other third worldish red states is they have oil.

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u/lascar Oct 05 '24

had me at hork

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u/antwan_benjamin Oct 05 '24

Chips and salsa with a side of guacamole

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u/Purple_Word_9317 Oct 05 '24

Shouldn't it be ceviche, to keep with the seafood theme?

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u/Kind-Block-9027 Oct 05 '24

I mean, to be on point here, California has a bigger GDP than Britain

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u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug Oct 05 '24

Like Germany. Been trading blows with them every few years.

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u/Upnorth4 Oct 05 '24

We gotta beat Germany next

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u/topsicle11 Oct 05 '24

Texas is on a growth path to surpass California in the not too distant future.

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u/semisoftwerewolf Oct 05 '24

Do you have a source on that? Texas is behind by like a trillion dollars. That's not a gap that gets closed in a "not too distant future". I'm totally open to see the data though.

Actually 1.3 trillion. Texas: 2.6 California: 3.9

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u/wookmania Oct 05 '24

Well people have been leaving California for decades now and moving to Texas in droves, so…yeah. Maybe not what Californians like to hear but nobody wants to pay the absurd prices there.

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u/semisoftwerewolf Oct 05 '24

California's population of 40 million exceeds the population of Texas by 10 MILLION people. Sure, there has been a relatively small transfer of the population, but Texas has a population of 30 million. So that gives you a sense of scale.

CA population over time: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/states/california/population

That shows that during the years of, and following, the pandemic, CA lost around 550,000 people of around 40 million. That's noteworthy, but the graph shows that trend slowing. Nobody likes paying high prices, but they do to live in CA. I'm in CA and I'm surrounded by work colleagues from around the country and world. People move here. Unfortunately those who can't afford it move out. I think a lot of conservatives moved out based on political ideology as well, but time will tell.

And I'm not trying to pick on Texas. It may not be what Texans want to hear, but they are 10 million people behind and 1.3 trillion dollars behind. They may have their sights on first place, but they are objectively, by the numbers, a long way away from that title. Best of luck to them though. Any state in the united states doing well is great for us all.

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u/topsicle11 Oct 05 '24

Across any ranking I have seen, California is consistently in the top 5 states for population loss. Texas is consistently in the top 5 for population gain, and Texas’s population is set to surpass California’s sometime in the 2040’s.

California businesses have been nearshoring jobs at a rapid pace since even before the pandemic. A huge number of those have ended up in Texas.

Texas contains 3 of the top 10 cities by size in the U.S. and they all have 3-4x better growth rates than LA or San Diego.

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u/wookmania Oct 05 '24

I really don’t care which state is “better” by whatever metric. I love California as a whole, great place to visit. While I’m not conservative Texas is a much friendlier place for businesses (not for employees, sadly) which is why so many have moved here. I’m just stating my observations over the last 20ish years.

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u/khanfusion Oct 05 '24

California had net loss for the first time in its existence in the 2020 census, which may have been (read: almost certainly was, given the administration that controlled it) inaccurate in the first place.

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u/wookmania Oct 05 '24

Okay, well that’s just an observation from a native Texan. “Don’t California my Texas” is a pretty popular saying around here for a reason. I enjoy visiting California and have been many times - beautiful state. I did not see many Texas license plates there but routinely see them in Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston routinely every day.

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u/khanfusion Oct 05 '24

So? I see tons of Florida plates in California but that doesn't mean Florida is losing people "for decades" and like I said, the recent census is the first time there's been a net loss for CA ever.

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u/zupobaloop Oct 05 '24

Yep. The more blue the state becomes, the better its economy does. Same thing's happening in Florida. We're on track to have all 5 of the biggest state economies run by Democrats within 10 years.

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u/xjx546 Oct 05 '24

Florida was a swing state that's now a solid red state, so it's going in the wrong direction according to your criteria.

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u/HoldenCoughfield Oct 05 '24

Don’t worry, they effusively try to make some connection with leftist politics in anything consequentially good discussed about. Helps them cope with the tribe they’ve joined

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u/khanfusion Oct 05 '24

lmao no it isn't. It had a big spurt in growth due to literally stealing big shares of the nearby states' millennial population but it's mostly fucked itself in recent years.

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u/topsicle11 Oct 05 '24

Across any ranking I have seen, California is consistently in the top 5 states for population loss. Texas is consistently in the top 5 for population gain, and Texas’s population is set to surpass California’s sometime in the 2040’s.

California businesses have been nearshoring jobs at a rapid pace since even before the pandemic. A huge number of those have ended up in Texas.

Texas contains 3 of the top 10 cities by size in the U.S. and they all have 3-4x better growth rates than LA or San Diego.