From Brad Wilcox and Grant Bailey with the Institute for Family Studies:

The 2026 Family Structure Index spotlights red states’ growing dominance on the family front. Take family migration. From 2019 to 2024, there has been a steady exodus of families from Blue to Red America—370,000 families from blue to red states. In fact, going back to 2008, a net total of 713 thousand married families with children left blue states for red states over 16 years.

Here are the specifics for Virginia:

Virginia’s #18 rank is second best among all East Coast states (New Jersey is higher) and fourth best among states west of the Mississippi (Indiana and Kentucky rank higher).

States with the strongest families are found in the Great Plains and Inter-Mountain west.

Read the full article here.