Posted on 08/02/2021 6:33:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
The real threat to states like Arizona is not COVID, it’s CALVID, Arizona turning into California. People fleeing the deteriorating state are flocking to Arizona and bringing their failed political views with them. Former Californians now make up about 10% of the population in Arizona. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey titled an op-ed for The Orange County Register in March warning those considering moving to Arizona, “Leaving California? Don’t Forget Why.” He joked about thanking the California governor during a speech for growing Arizona’s economy.
More people are leaving the state than moving there. A survey in 2019 found that 53% are considering leaving. Websites have popped up helping people escape. Any growth comes from births, including a large percentage from illegal immigrants. In contrast, Arizona has one of the highest rates of people moving there of any of the states. About 80% of those moving to Arizona choose Phoenix, which explains why its city government is now dominated by Democrats.
Registered Democrats in California outnumber Republicans nearly two to one, and hold all the statewide offices. California cannot afford all of its social justice and climate change programs, so taxes are high. The state has such restrictive energy policies due to radical environmentalism that the existing energy infrastructure cannot keep up with demand, resulting in frequent rolling blackouts. The state relies heavily on solar and wind power which are not capable yet of supporting millions of people reliably, while refusing to expand oil, natural gas or nuclear plants. Residents are used to the blackouts, but people in Arizona aren’t, and it would be deadly for much of the state due to the desert heat.
California agricultural businesses are fleeing the state to escape the high energy costs and water shortages. This is affecting the cost of water in Arizona, since Arizona is already maxed out with how much water it uses. Many tech companies have left the state, bringing their lefty tech employees to Arizona.
The homeless problem is even worse than the mainstream media portrays it. It’s more than just poop and drug needles. The population of the homeless in Los Angeles’s Skid Row is around 5,000 people, and it spans 50 blocks, almost three square miles. Phoenix has nothing even remotely comparable. Los Angeles designated it a “containment zone” back in 1976, where the homeless would be tolerated and allowed to live there. In 2019, the city removed the limit on how much stuff the homeless can keep on the streets. Over 50% of crime in central Los Angeles takes place on Skid Row.
The cost of living is the highest in the country. The median cost of a home is more than twice the national average. This is in part because slow-growth rules are impeding housing construction, not keeping up with the population. Gas prices are some of the highest in the nation due to all the extra taxes and rules that limit competition. The COVID-19 pandemic hit California harder than other states, even though there was a drastic statewide lockdown. The lockdown resulted in higher unemployment rates than other states.
This phenomenon is not just happening between California and Arizona. Nine of the top 10 states people are moving to are red states, with Oregon being the lone exception. Seven or eight of the top 10 states people are fleeing are blue states. The Mercury News bragged in 2019 that people leaving California helped turn Nevada blue. “Already, the results have been palpable. In recent months, lawmakers raised the minimum wage, put in place higher green energy standards, guaranteed collective bargaining rights for state employees and enacted new gun control measures.” In 2004, there were 1,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats in Nevada. By 2019, Democrats had developed a 70,000 advantage.
Arizonans should be more afraid of CALVID than COVID. Despite the MSM hype, Arizona is not experiencing a third surge of COVID-19. People blame California for starting to turn Arizona blue. While Maricopa County may have gone blue in some of the 2020 races due to voter fraud, Republicans did lose some of their voting edge, as Democrats gained 51,000 more voters in the state between 2016 and 2019.
But this may be turning around. The latest quarterly registration numbers released from the Arizona Secretary of State show that 3,093 registered as Republicans and only 539 registered as Democrats, leaving Republicans with a significant 125,322 advantage statewide, and almost 100,000 more voters in Maricopa County. Additionally, 40% of those considering leaving California are Republicans, whereas only 14% are Democrats. Let’s just hope the voter fraud in Arizona stops.
Ridicule works.
CALVID is a threat to all of America; not just Arizona. It has already consumed Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Colorado.
Few are fleeing their state to come to my state of NY.
If liberals can move everywhere and turn everywhere they go blue, the majority of Americans must be liberals. In which case they should rule everything.
As a result of the 2020 census, California lost a seat in Congress for the first time in history.
It’s amazing to think that 10% of Arizona’s people are former Californians.
I’m sure these demographic trends will continue. There are various reasons, as noted in the article. I would just observe, having worked with various companies who sometimes recruit for highly specialized jobs, that they have had a very hard time in recent decades trying to get people from other parts of the country to move to California.
Often reasons cited for reluctance, is the high cost of housing. Even if someone could get a 50% raise by a job transfer, they could actually have a lower standard of living due to not being able to afford housing of the quality they are accustomed to, in a nicer part of town.
That is like saying cancer has a right to consume and prevail over a healthy body.
Something to keep in mind is that locusts don’t give a flip about that last prairie they destroyed. Commies are the same, so long as they can steal from someone they will not stop. You have to erect barriers.
I think the major pollsters have stopped doing exit polls in California because the vote is always so lopsided.
Anyway, as late as 2012, white California voters consistently gave a modest majority to every Republican presidential candidate.
Bush (2 times), McCain, and Romney, all received a majority of the white vote in California.
My point - 26% of Arizona voters were non-white. They voted 59% for Biden.
Trump only got 52% of the white vote in Arizona.
I agree that voter fraud was the deciding factor.
But, Trump absolutely needed to do better than 52% with white voters in a center-right state like Arizona.
Nearly my whole neighborhood here are from Cal.
Every single one except one are staunch conservatives.
Will be interesting to see what happens.
We all get that and agree 100%.
Start by saying that it is past time to get rid of the federal income tax just for example. The NazicRATS would never agree with that as a plan.
Maybe, planing on eliminating several government agencies and turning that responsibility back to the states...etc.
Guy showed up here, started trashing my town in the newspaper, saying what a bunch of racist inbreds he thought we all were. We ridiculed his intolerant my-way-or-the-highway bullcrap (you really do have to give it back to them in kind), and we attempted to educate him on the fact that California has one set of assets and liabilities, and any other state these refugees go to are going to have different assets and liabilities to work with.
I know for a fact that there is some sort of supremacist mentality going on, and some sort of stereotype of everyone else that is half the movie “Deliverance” and half the song by Primus “My Name is Mud.” They honestly don’t seem to have any idea that there is life East of the San Andreas fault.
A lot of California’s reality is governed by the big ports over there, so yeah, they are going to be about the globalism because thats where they make their money. Arizona has a different set of economic realities, mining, manufacturing, beef, so thats really different from having big old ports and lots of military spending to rely on. I think California is well on its way to having a culture defined by the new Silk Road, based on hospitality, like Ethiopia and Arab traders of old. Other places will need cultures that serve their interests just as Californians has found one that sort of serves their interests. You can’t just lock horns when dealing with supremacists (and they are) because the whole noble fight for truth, justice, and the right to violate ardvarks is what these guys are all about. Make the conversation about budgets instead but remember to paint a picture and not just bore them to death.
The homeless crisis might serve as an example. It gets hot as balls in Arizona whereas Los Angeles temperature barely budges, so people who live outdoors long term are going to be more likely to do so in a place with stable temperatures.
“Nearly my whole neighborhood here are from Cal.
Every single one except one are staunch conservatives.
Will be interesting to see what happens.”
Ditto here except all of the ex-Californians are staunch conservatives.
Per the Yavapai County Republican chairwoman (also from California) the problem is a lot of long time Arizonans did not vote in Yavapai County in 2020 and don’t want to get involved in turning out the vote.
Seriously though, the Yankee/Californian invasion problem has surpassed the illegal aliens bringing their "values" from their screwed up countries as they just screw up the enclaves they carve out - not whole counties and states like these swine. Shows it doesn't matter where they come from; they're going to screw up the good thing regardless.
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