....it is quite interesting that we are seeing more and more California license plates here in the central Texas area than we ever used to....but in all truth, virtually all of the Cali-refugees we have met here are solidly conservative, unlike the supposed stereotype of the liberal CA resident who moves here and then says, Why can’t Texas be more like California...??
Pull ‘em over, send them to court and see if they can validate or established permanent residency.
This sort of thing gets said a lot -- "My new neighbor who just moved here from [California, New York, Illinois, or whatever liberal state] is a true conservative! I was shocked!" -- but it's just nothing more than selection bias. If you live in a decent area, then chances are the type of people who move into your area are decent too.
For now.
Areas do change, and these days they almost never change for the better.
If you go to Austin and check out the astronomical number of California license plates there & ask the native Austinites (Austinians?) what THEY think of the new arrivals they'll surely tell you how fantastic it is that so many new liberals are arriving in Texas daily and transforming the state from blue (proper color usage) to purple.
Who is right? Well, lets see:
At the presidential level, in the early 2000s the state was 10-12% more Republican than the national average even when there wasn't a "Bush" on the ticket. In 2016 and 2020 Texas was only 5 or 6% more Republican than the national average. The same declining pattern applies to other statewide elections in Texas, so it's not just a "Trump effect" -- and that's even with rural Hispanics supposedly moving TOWARD the GOP.
So who is causing the decline? Blacks? Nah, they're already as far left as possible. Urban Hispanics? Ditto. The answer, to a significant extent, is white invaders from other states like California. Especially California.
There are two types of Californians coming to Texas. The early ones (over the past ten years) came like many other Texans in search of freedom and liberty. I know of at least two couples that made the move because of the gun laws.I am sure the other regulations and restrictions were additional reasons...
The other type are arriving here because that’s where their jobs went... This is typical of those moving to Austin and bringing California with them thus destroying our “Hill Country” in many ways. We live sixty miles north of Austin near IH-35 and we are getting the overflow.
In the past we looked forward to our trips to Austin and I belonged to a couple of volunteer organizations there. I refuse to even visit the city now unless there is no choice.
Our area is undergoing massive expansion for two reasons, Texans leaving Austin and the California overflow.Our real estate prices are gong out of sight and California based businesses are moving into every strip mall bringing their sorry Cali-burgers with them.
The relocated folks are very defensive when you ask where they are from since we make no secret that we do not like the invasion.
They are also putting a strain on our limited resources like water.
The Corps of Engineers and the Brazos River Authority are now preparing a pipe line to tie our two local lakes together so that water can be moved to the lake that is already pipe-lined to our adjacent county,Williamson, that is the north Austin sanctuary of Californians. Our lakes are all at drought levels with the major source of Austin water, Lake Travis, down to 46% capacity and it is that high only because it feeder lake, the very large Lake Buchanan, has been drained to 60% capacity. We ain’t got the water as tens of thousands more Californians prepare to move into the jobs already announced in the Central Texas area...
We personally own a large parcel of land very near IH-35 (4 miles and IH-14 (1/2 mile) where the deer and the armadillos still roam. We are constantly bombarded by people wanting to do us a favor by taking this old unused land and turn it into a California East... We are doing our best to keep Texas the way Texas wants to be. ENUF!!!
I’ve read that there are two types of new people who have moved from blue to red states. The first is people who have left of their own volition. They’re usually conservative. The second type is people who have relocated because their employer has relocated from a blue to a red state. They’re usually liberal. This is why red states should not offer enticements to businesses to relocate from blue states.