Americans Fleeing Blue State Tax Hells For Red States Like Texas

If the California/New York economic model--high taxes, big municipal and state government bureaucracies and unions, high regulations, in your face environmentalism, etc--is so wonderful, why are Americans fleeing those states in droves? Why are they moving, instead, to states with lower taxes and more freedom (i.e. "red states")?

Obviously, a lot of people agree with me that it is great to be in Texas.

Great article from Joel Kotkin at New Geography:

Net Domestic Migration by State
2009 Rank		Net Domestic Migration		Rank 2000-2009
	State	2009	2000-2009
1	Texas	143,423	838,126	2
2	North Carolina	59,108	663,892	4
3	Washington	38,201	239,037	9
4	Colorado	35,591	202,735	10
5	South Carolina	31,480	306,045	7
6	Georgia	26,604	550,369	5
7	Tennessee	20,605	259,711	8
8	Oklahoma	18,345	42,284	19
9	Virginia	18,238	164,930	12
10	Oregon	16,173	177,375	11
11	Arizona	15,111	696,793	3
12	Louisiana	14,647	(311,368)	45
13	Alabama	11,044	87,199	14
14	Utah	8,623	53,390	17
15	Wyoming	7,192	22,883	25
16	Kentucky	6,268	81,711	15
17	Arkansas	5,298	75,163	16
18	West Virginia	4,510	17,727	26
19	District of Columbia	4,454	(39,814)	37
20	Massachusetts	3,614	(274,722)	44
21	New Mexico	3,366	26,383	24
22	Delaware	2,580	45,424	18
23	Montana	2,410	39,853	21
24	South Dakota	1,619	7,182	27
25	Idaho	1,555	110,279	13
26	North Dakota	1,375	(18,071)	31
27	Pennsylvania	1,346	(33,119)	34
28	Alaska	979	(7,360)	29
29	Missouri	(124)	41,278	20
30	Nebraska	(956)	(39,275)	36
31	Vermont	(975)	(1,505)	28
32	Kansas	(1,242)	(67,762)	41
33	Iowa	(2,135)	(49,589)	40
34	New Hampshire	(2,602)	32,588	22
35	Maine	(2,937)	29,260	23
36	Nevada	(3,801)	361,512	6
37	Hawaii	(5,298)	(29,022)	33
38	Mississippi	(5,529)	(36,061)	35
39	Wisconsin	(5,672)	(11,981)	30
40	Rhode Island	(6,172)	(45,159)	38
41	Indiana	(6,805)	(21,467)	32
42	Connecticut	(7,824)	(94,376)	42
43	Minnesota	(8,813)	(46,635)	39
44	Maryland	(11,163)	(95,775)	43
45	Florida	(31,179)	1,154,213	1
46	New Jersey	(31,690)	(451,407)	47
47	Ohio	(36,278)	(361,038)	46
48	Illinois	(48,249)	(614,616)	49
49	Michigan	(87,339)	(537,471)	48
50	New York	(98,178)	(1,649,644)	51
51	California	(98,798)	(1,490,105)	50
Derived from US Bureau of the Census data.