Voting with your feet: Virginia and gays

Apparently, gay people are being driven out of Virginia by the hostile legal environment. Here's Sullivan:

The most anti-gay state in the union, if you analyze its legislative history, is now beginning to see gay flight. May they take their disposable income, their skills, their jobs, their companies and their self-respect with them. This is tyhe state that has enacvted the full Christianist agenda on gay couples: denying them not just marriage and civil unions, but even legally-binding private contracts to help them support their relationships.

I'd like to see some data on the gay flight: How many families? Where are they going? What reasons are they giving? I hope it gets to the point where the Virginia Chamber of Commerce (or some similar body) starts complaining that these hateful policies are hurting the state's business climate. I know one reason that corporations started offering benefits to same-sex partners was for competitive reasons: during the 90's, people with certain skills were very valuable, and corporations needed to offer incentives. (If only the military felt the same way about Arab language specialists.) Maybe states will start doing the same thing. Maybe they'll be quiet about it, for fear of stirring up anti-gay feelings. But I imagine that soon enough the desire of gay people for the rights that everyone else enjoys will outweigh the desire of homophobes to deny them those rights, at least in the eyes of the business community.

Note that gay flight is only the visible half of the problem for Virginia: the part you don't see is all the gay individuals and families who would move to Virginia, but are choosing not to because of those homophobic policies. That's much harder to measure.

UPDATE: A lot more information can be found here on Pandagon.