Lower taxes, Republican legislatures, and stronger pandemic economies — people flocked to red states and abandoned blue ones in 2022.

Florida saw the biggest influx of new residents, some 319,000 people, a total population increase of nearly 2%, according to an analysis released on Monday by the National Association of Realtors. In terms of sheer volume, the Sunshine State was followed by Texas, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Arizona, and Idaho.

Of note, the top 10 states with the greatest number of new residents are ones that typically lean right (although Arizona and North Carolina both have Democratic governors).

The state with the most outbound migration by population was California, with more than 343,000 people leaving the state. The Golden State was followed by New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. New York had the largest overall decline in its population share, a 0.9% drop.

The analysis relied on the United States Postal Service’s change-of-address data to identify domestic migration patterns. When someone moves to a new home in another state, they have to submit a change-of-address request, so the data are a reliable proxy for migration statistics, according to the NAR.

The NAR noted in its report that many of the areas that saw the most people relocating featured economies where the labor market had bounded back since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, which featured state and local governments across the United States shutting down or restricting business operations in an effort to quell the virus.

“Among the top 10 large areas with the highest inbound move rates, not only was their economy able to recover all the jobs that were lost at the beginning of the pandemic but there are about 5% on average more jobs now than in March 2020 in these areas,” the report read.

Many of the cities and states that saw their economies bounce back the most from the pandemic-induced slump were those with Republican leaders, who were typically more likely to undo restrictions as they saw them as too excessive.

The new data for 2022 follows a similar path as 2020 and 2021’s migration patterns.

Last year, the American Enterprise Institute released a study that, using census data, found from April 2020 to July 2021, the top states for inbound migration were Florida, Texas, Arizona, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. Meanwhile, California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey rounded out the bottom of the list.

AEI, a center-right think tank, said that empirical evidence suggests that “domestic migration patterns in the US do reflect Americans and firms ‘voting/moving with their feet’ from Democratic-controlled, high-tax, business-unfriendly, fiscally unhealthy, economically stagnant states with relatively high electricity and housing costs to Republican-controlled, lower-tax, more business-friendly, fiscally healthy and economically vibrant states with lower electricity and housing costs.”

Several companies and well-known figures have made highly publicized moves from states like New York and California to destinations like Florida and Texas.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk made waves in 2021 when he announced that he was relocating the electric car giant’s headquarters from the tech hub of Silicon Valley in California to Austin, Texas. He cited affordable housing and commute times as some of the driving factors.

Billionaire hedge fund boss Ken Griffin, citing a better corporate environment, announced last year that he is moving his firm Citadel from Chicago to Florida.

“Chicago will continue to be important to the future of Citadel, as many of our colleagues have deep ties to Illinois,” Griffin wrote in a letter to staff. “Over the past year, however, many of our Chicago teams have asked to relocate to Miami, New York, and our other offices around the world.”

Construction equipment giant Caterpillar also announced last year that it would be relocating its headquarters from Illinois to Texas.