“West Virginia “is the only state to decline in population over the last 70 years”
Jim Justice
Governor of West Virginia. a tweet. Claim dated 4 Mar 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisTrue
What PolitiFact found
According to official Census data, West Virginia is the only state to see its population decline between 1950 and 2019.
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In short
Jim Justice (Governor of West Virginia) made this claim around 4 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 March 2021, 21 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Jim Justice has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 3 true.
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- PolitiFact: False“West Virginia is “the only state losing population.”