Census: Weak economy caused dramatic slowdown in magnet states

The Washington Post reports:

Many of the states in the South and West that boasted the country's highest growth rates are now experiencing a dramatic slowdown because of the recession, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. The magnet states of Florida and Nevada are seeing more people leave than move in -- a reversal from just a year or two ago.

Texas had the biggest population leap, with 478,000 more people living there in the year that ended July 1. Its growth rate of 2 percent last year was marginally lower than Wyoming and Utah, which had the top growth rates in the country but are much smaller states.