Posted on 12/27/2013 5:46:47 PM PST by rightwingerpatriot
There is a foul pestilence making its way across America today. Where once proud bastions of conservatism and traditional American values have stood the test of time, a lingering disease has penetrated and spreads its malicious infection. I'm talking about the progressive liberal plague that occurs when liberals pick up and leave bastions of liberal thinking and move to areas of the country where conservatism was the backbone of the culture.
States such as Colorado, Texas, and Florida have all had an invasion of liberals. These entities have left behind states such as New York and Michigan after liberal policies destroyed those states. You would think that seeing the effects of liberalism would wake these people up, especially as they move to another state to better themselves economically. Sadly, that is not the case as logic and reason are two concepts that liberal minds cannot grasp or even begin to comprehend. Liberals will gladly complain of the insane taxes and regulations imposed by the very politicians they vote for, election after election, but when they move to another state that isn't strangled by red tape, high taxes, or anti-free market labor unions, they'll continue to support politicians that support the very things they are running from.
I've seen this firsthand in my home state of Florida. According to the US Census Bureau, New York is about to be displaced by Florida as the third most populous state. There are 50,000 people moving from New York to Florida every year, but it's just not old retirees. In fact, 78% of those moving are under the age of 60 and there are roughly the same number of people who are in their 30's and 40's as there are retirees. I actually find this stunning as the job situation in Florida is deplorable. Most of the jobs are low-wage jobs as Florida has long been a tourism/hospitality state for employment. Sadly, the number of New Yorkers (and others) moving to Florida is increasing the cost of living for native-born crackers. While Florida was always a low-wage state, the cost of living was also extremely low, plus we have no state income tax. Yet, the massive influx of liberals from the North and their voting habits is making the state extremely hard to afford to live in for normal people. South Florida is incredibly expensive to live in as housing prices and property taxes have gone through the roof in the last decade. I, myself, had to move from South to Central Florida just to be able to afford paying my property tax. When I lived in South Florida, the vast majority of people that I knew worked in counties to the south, but they were unable to afford to own or even rent a place to live in the counties that they worked. I'm not just talking about restaurant workers, but also teachers, firemen, and policemen.
When these liberals invade a new state, they don't discard their ideology despite the fact that they've been forced to relocate due to the effects of that ideology of big government and big taxes. They'll rail that the place they moved to is backward and this isn't "how things were done back home!" The obvious rebuttal is don't screw up my state just because you've screwed up yours. The proof is in the pudding, my friends. Florida was a solidly Republican state but voted for Obama twice. Colorado was a solid state for Republicans as well but now votes Democrat. Heck, a lunatic like Alan Grayson would not be electable twenty years ago, but he's now one two elections overall.
This is why I consider the population shift a liberal plague. They mess up their own state and are then forced to move to a state that is more business-friendly. Once in the new state, they continue to practice their infectious ideology of liberal progressivism and the sickness begins to spread. Eventually, the healthy (conservative) part of the state's body is marginalized and the very same practices that bankrupted other states are adopted and become the norm. It's an insidious spread and it's hard to combat. Liberal states still vote liberal Democrat but states that used to vote conservative or Republican are getting flipped. One wishes that there were a vaccine to cure this mind rot of liberalism, but, as the old adage goes, you just can't fix stupid.
Lots of retired UAW have invaded Florida from Great Lakes states. There may be more retired UAW in Florida than there are still working up north in auto plants.
And idiot Californians (my niece included) gone to Colorado for lower cost living than the Pacific coast.
Foul your nest, move into someone else ‘s clean one.
I left California a month ago, for a lower cost of living too, but I went a WHOLE lot further away than Colorado.
Cancer kills
Unfortunately I’d bet she was replaced by a legal (Asian) or illegal (Mexican) immigrant who votes just as Democrat as her.
I can remember when California was a conservative state, before the NY’ers moved here in the 70’s (like Barbara Boxer). What the heck do they put in the water up there?
It was easy access and generous welfare payments that
drew people like idiot Indianans to California that helped to
ruin this once conservatve state.
I was visiting a construction job in Texas back in 1982.
An old redneck told me “son if Texas had welfare like you folks do up North, half the population of Mexico would move here tomorrow.”
California proved he was right, LOL.
Here in St. Mary’s County Maryland we call them Come-downers.
Many come in with the Navy at pax River, they all want the amenities they left, the same thing that screwed up where they came from.
I always heard they were snowbirds.
1787, B. Franklin, its a republic “if you can keep it”.
We ran the loyalists off to Canada or killed ‘em during the Revolution. Today conservatives just don’t have the stomach for the business of keeping a free republic. That’s all. Nothing more.
I saw it here in Howard county Maryland. Once a Red conservative county in 1990s.
I figured out about 15 years ago that large scale housing development here would screw things up and it did.
It voted GOP as late as 2000, by 2004 it turned Dem.
At least the vast majority of the Mexicans want to work.
Can’t say that for many of the Indianans and others anymore.
A lot of those who did work bought a union mentality with
them so now the state is owned lock, stock, and barrel by
the unions, particularly the puplic sector unions.
You know many of you Freepers from the rest of the US act as
if all of us in California are flaming libs but that just ain’t true.
The truth is there are more conservatives in California than
there are people in Indiana. Unfortunately we have been
outnumbered much like the article author writes about
Florida. And by libs leaving your state for California your life
improved while ours got worse. So please keep in mind that
there is such a thing as “non idiot” Californians who stay here
for a variety of sound reasons.
Just wait until the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” HUD program kicks in. You and your neighborhood will be diversified at taxpayer expense.
I’m ok with hunting permits...
What’s a good bag limit for Commie scum?
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