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Commentary: Are Californians fleeing en masse to Texas? The reality is complicated

People out in the sun along the Venice Beach Boardwalk in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2022.

On the busy, buzzing lanes of Interstate 10 in the westernmost reaches of Texas, sure enough there come cars headed east bearing plates with the red word across the top: California. But there are plenty of cars bearing black and white Texas plates bound the other way — for California.

For at least 15 years, it has become nearly cliché that Californians are moving to Texas, where jobs abound and the price of housing is far cheaper. But nearly unnoticed is the traffic that has

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