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33-year-old Jesse Lerios from California has been in the news recently after deciding

on a whim to don a bear suit and walk 400 miles from downtown Los Angeles to the Golden Gate Bridge

in San Francisco.

Larryos doesn't have a specific timeline or plan for how to get there, but he says

he's enjoyed meeting new people, including a rather perplexed member of the Santa Clarita Sheriff's

Department, who stopped him briefly in a notable exchange before sending him on his way. So far,

his journey has resulted in more than $11,000 in charitable donations to go along with

countless smiles from those he's encountered. Lerios is apparently not the only one to leave

home in recent years, however. The new batch of census data collected in 2020 has been released,

and it appears that rather significant swaths of the American population

have moved to the south and west. While California, for example, remains the country's most

populous state by a decent margin, more people left than arrived over the last decade,

and much of that movement came in recent years. The Northeast and

industrial Midwest also experienced a decline as citizens left in search of jobs, more affordable

housing, and a host of other factors. These shifts are already starting to have some potentially

significant impacts on life in these areas and across the country.

Politically, the decline in California and New York means both states are among those who

will lose a seat in the House of Representatives. Texas, by contrast, will gain two seats,

while Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon will each add one.

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