Posted on 02/14/2020 10:29:37 PM PST by Theoria
People leaving the Golden State are changing the political makeup of the states they move to.
President Trump clearly hates the most populous state in the country he governs. While trashing California with his gutter mouth, the president has used his office to physically trash the home to nearly one in eight Americans — seeking to make its air more polluted, its water less clean, its forests more vulnerable to catastrophic fires.
But now the Golden State is poised to strike back. By moving its presidential primary from June to March 3, California will finally exert a political influence commensurate to its size. Almost 500 delegates, a fourth of the number needed to win the Democratic nomination, are at stake.
Perhaps more consequential — or at least overlooked — is what’s happening among the vast diaspora of more than 7.3 million people who have left California since 2007. They appear to be changing the political makeup of the states they’ve moved to, perhaps enough to alter the Electoral College map in favor of Democrats.
With nearly 40 million people, California is still gaining population — barely. But stratospheric home prices and unbearable rental costs have created a reverse “Grapes of Wrath,” forcing those who are not rich to flee to states with much lower costs of living.
The question is: Are they bringing California values — fierce defense of the environment, tolerance of immigrants and a multiracial society, insistence on universal health care — with them?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Bwahahahaha
I brought my conservative values with me
You’d think they’d stay where they were if the ‘california values’ they’re bringing are so great.
Typical NY Slimes fake news
And my lady and I brought our conservative values with us to Saint George, Utah, when we escaped from California with our lives.
So are you enjoying life in St. Jarge? It’s very pretty there, isn’t it?
Typical NYT doesn’t even realize who is leaving. Orange county CA went from 10 points Red to 10 points blue between two elections. I would say it’s republicans that are leaving including me
Californians aren’t hurting Trump. They’re f**king up the rest of the country by bringing their Calimmunist policies with them to the new states they move to.
The editors at New York Slimes are so desperate for Anti Trump junk articles that they published this absolute rubbish?
Shame on them
Know several that have left here. All conservatives. Gone to Nevada, NC, SC, Georgia, Texas, Washington, Idaho.
California is run by Morons and deserves to be made fun of.
I can’t leave ... 5 kids, several grandkids, and live in a great conservative area.
As long as you don’t produce anything here, there’s not much their vulture agencies can do to you.
Love the weather
Dem vote ping
They sound mad.
The reason people are FLEEING CA. is BECAUSE they HATE the way the damn place is being run if they liked it they would stay!! I can’t wait to get the hell out of this state it is like living in Mexico!!!
>>seeking to make its air more polluted, its water less clean, its forests more vulnerable to catastrophic fires.
horseshit
What a crock! The people looking for a free ride are staying and their freeloading brethren are flocking here like gulls to a free meal. Those leaving are disgusted and looking for greener pastures.
“....They’re f**king up the rest of the country by bringing their Calimmunist policies with them to the new states they move to....”
Such would only apply to LIBERAL RATS moving to other states. The majority of those leaving Taxifornia are CONSERVATIVES and are taking their wealth with them to the benefit of their new homes....I know. I am soon to be one of them after living in Kali most of my 75 years, watching it go from a great state to a pile of RAT FECES over that time. I am leaving, taking my values, my wealth to a new conservative home.
To Newsome, Pelosi and their ilk, I say AMF.
This is an article ? This is hateful filth from a nutjob.
Driving here from Las Vegas takes you through about 12 miles of the Virgin River Gorge. . . Spectacular, and the view changes with every turn.
The most beautiful thing of all is that the population is 80% Republican!
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