More moved out of Florida than here from other states, census data show

For the first time since the 1940s, more people moved out of Florida last year than new residents moved in from other states as the economic slump halted years of explosive population growth in the Sunshine State. Florida reported a net loss of 9,286 domestic residents between July 2007 and July 2008, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released this month. But that loss was offset by a net gain of 77,427 new international residents, mainly Latin American immigrants. The loss of domestic residents who once flocked to the Sunshine State's condo towers and palm tree-lined neighborhoods also was offset by more births than deaths during the year, according to the census data.

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