Will Rogers said the same thing about the Okies going to California in the Dust Bowl days.
“It raised the IQ of both states.”
“It raised the IQ of both states.”
That implies that the sheeple who stay in New York to pay the taxes are smarter than the escapees, and that the native population of the (presumably low tax, subtropical, 2A friendly) state that they move to is really dumb. Is that what OP really wants to say? (I might be missing something. I was just released from jury duty yesterday, and my brain still hurts.)