Funny, Florida is getting an influx of people exiting the Northeast due to the local tax cap changes of the current administration and our high prop and local taxes here. It's all over the press.

Thus I'm skeptical. And "brain drains" refer to skilled employees leaving, not some intelligence or education level which you're implying.

I've always seen brain drain used to reference the educated leaving an area. Frequently calling out professors and other educators leaving as part of the brain drain

"Skilled" work is increasingly correlated with educational attainment.

Skilled employees have intelligence and education level.

For Republicans, there's a correlation between level of education and climate change denialism:

Climate change divides Americans, but in an unlikely way: The more education that Democrats and Republicans have, the more their beliefs in climate change diverge.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/14/upshot/climat...

It's mostly a flight to jobs in cities. A counterpoint is blue metro areas in red states (e.g. Texas, Kansas City, North Carolina)

Do you have any evidence for this claim?

Here are a couple articles I've found about MS and NE:

1. https://mississippitoday.org/2016/07/13/mississippi-brain-dr...

2. https://www.omaha.com/news/education/higher-education/nebras...

College-educated workers want and need to live in more urban areas that have employers in future-forward industries. From a cultural aspect, I think these people also want to live in municipalities (up to state government) that are run by people that share their values. Among the educated, these values are increasingly progressive.

I can't speak for the rest of the state, but I can tell you for certain that northern Mississippi (and at least some parts just south of it) has generally been booming. In fact, the "Gold Rush" may have slowed down quite a bit by now, but for a while there it was hard to keep people from surrounding states from pulling up stakes and moving there, for various reasons. Wages are somewhat lower, true, but then so is the cost of living. And if you pick the right location, you can be within easy driving distance of a "more urban area" while still living "out in the country", if you want to.

His own smug sense of superiority should suffice.

I guess if you insult one commenter you get downvotes, but if you insult half of the population no one bats an eye?

HN is a special place

That has nothing do with why people want payouts from obviously disatrous externalities from pollutors.