A new study found the percentage of people living in every state who were born there . . . in other words, it ranked the states by how likely people are to basically stay there FOREVER.
And more than three-quarters of the people living in Louisiana, Michigan, and Ohio right now were born there.
There are 10 states where more than 69% of the people currently living there were also born there: Louisiana . . . Michigan . . . Ohio . . . Pennsylvania . . . Mississippi . . . Wisconsin . . . Iowa . . . Alabama . . . West Virginia . . . and Kentucky.
On the other end of the scale, only 26% of people living in Nevada were born there.
The 10 states with the smallest percentage of people who were born there are: Nevada . . . Florida . . . Arizona . . . Wyoming . . . Alaska . . . New Hampshire . . . Colorado . . . Delaware . . . Oregon . . . and Maryland.