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TEXAS MORE RED FROM BLUE STATE EXODUS
Breitbart Texas ^ | April 17,2014 | KRISTIN TATE

Posted on 04/18/2014 12:19:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The thought of the Lone Star State slowly transforming into a blue state is frightening to many native Texans, who fear that transplants will inject their cities with the very policies they initially fled from.

But not everyone buys the theory.

"Most liberals from California would rather die than come here," Chuck DeVore, Vice President of Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation told Breitbart Texas. "They perceive Texas as a Bible belt, gun toting, cowboy hat-wearing state. They think, 'If you can't surf, why would you go there?'"

DeVore should know--he used to live in California and served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010. He eventually made the move to Texas due to the lower living costs and higher quality of life.

DeVore thinks that the majority of Texas transplants are similar to him: Conservatives feeling suffocated by big cities' overwhelmingly liberal choke-hold. He said, "Migration is largely of taxpaying entrepreneurs and hardworking people who want to escape."

He pointed to a joint study by the University of Texas and Texas Tribune which confirmed that "California has been losing people in droves. The plurality of those migrants have moved to Texas, as many as 70,000 in 2011 and 60,000 in 2012." However, after polling a significant portion of the fresh transplants, the study found that 57 percent of them are self-proclaimed conservatives and only 27 percent are liberal.

"So while some may want to perceive the wave of Californians coming to Texas as part of the broader demographic trends that might eventually turn Texas purple, and then blue, the data collected to date suggest that Perry’s pitch appears to be hitting a chord with Californians who wear cowboy boots instead of Birkenstocks," the Texas Tribune concluded.

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1 posted on 04/18/2014 12:19:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Now that would be a twist. Next, we should cut welfare payments in TX so those who want to ride in the wagon will move to those generous northeastern states.


2 posted on 04/18/2014 12:22:05 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Hojczyk

This makes since…not like the retired Rats up north moving south…but how do you explain Colorado….over run by Californians


3 posted on 04/18/2014 12:22:57 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Liberals are like roaches. They destroy their home with bad policies, then move to fresh territory and repeat the process.


4 posted on 04/18/2014 12:23:14 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: txrefugee

To cold up there


5 posted on 04/18/2014 12:24:08 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Got a Hawaiian shirt wearing alternative med practitioner here. Came in from California

He’s very conservative He can talk voting trends, media trends, econocxs and American history.


6 posted on 04/18/2014 12:25:47 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Hojczyk

I am a Calfornia expat now in Dallas.

I like it here — the people are great and the politics make sense. It also is centrally located which is ideal for a Road Warrior like me (I have gotten a lot of my life back).

I miss Los Angeles from time to time, mostly for weather, the beach and things to do.

But I a am on the road most of the time anyway.

My first vote as a citizen here was for Cruz so I feel really good about that.


7 posted on 04/18/2014 12:28:29 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: freedumb2003

If Texas had waves I’d be there too.


8 posted on 04/18/2014 12:33:20 PM PDT by skeeter
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I couldn’t live anywhere outside of the Eastern Time Zone.But if I ever leave this state...a greater and greater possibility with each passing day...my destination will be a state that’s more “red” then the Gay State.North Carolina,eastern Tennessee,even Georgia (although I hate heat and humidity).And wherever I go I won’t be voting for Rats.Ever.


9 posted on 04/18/2014 12:34:48 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: Hojczyk; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; SierraWasp; AuH2ORepublican; Gay State Conservative; GOPsterinMA; ...
>> He pointed to a joint study by the University of Texas and Texas Tribune which confirmed that "California has been losing people in droves. The plurality of those migrants have moved to Texas, as many as 70,000 in 2011 and 60,000 in 2012." However, after polling a significant portion of the fresh transplants, the study found that 57 percent of them are self-proclaimed conservatives and only 27 percent are liberal. <<

Interesting. Now we have actual studies that proving southern freepers theories that "liberal yankee translants" made their states elect marxist RATs are wrong. Personally I'd say the illegal aliens, inner-city populations, and welfare leeches in states like Virginia are voting RAT a lot more than the "yankee transplants" do.

I'd still love to test their theory about "sending the liberal yankees back home" though, and agree to have our states take back our retired voters now living in Florida and Arizona, and in exchange they can have back all their southern transplants now living here (which they claim don't exist anyway because "no born and bred southerner would ever move to a yankee state") like Jesse Jackson, Bobby Rush, Danny Davis, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, etc.

Bottom line: I think their states send more "liberal transplants" up here than we send down there. Most of the people fleeing California and Illinois are doing so because they are conservatives. I doubt Jesse Jackson moved up north because he believes in "states rights".

10 posted on 04/18/2014 12:37:18 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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Between Price Andrew the new Mayor, and the State Supreme Court Ruling that said no to the 2nd amendment rights, how does TX not get a HUGE influx of Conservative NY-er's that have had it. Me thinks some great businesses would come to TX, aka ethnic foods if that is their forte, win-win for TX IMHO....
11 posted on 04/18/2014 12:37:55 PM PDT by taildragger (The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)
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To: Hojczyk

Conservative and liberal mean different things in different states.


12 posted on 04/18/2014 12:42:58 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: skeeter
“If Texas had waves I’d be there too.”

Ahh, Texas has a long coast line - you see, the ocean around Florida is our ocean, too. :o) Take a look at a map for goodness sakes. There are numerous cities on the coast and jobs available due to well drilling and other services, like oil refining plants.

13 posted on 04/18/2014 12:45:50 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Hojczyk

Not only is Texas a port in the storm for conservatives fleeing blue states, it’s probably going to end up being the last real hope for America.

America as we know it will soon die, but somewhere a truncated version of the country may form... Texas seems as likely as anywhere to be that follow-on to America.


14 posted on 04/18/2014 12:46:41 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: freedumb2003

A close friend and her husband lived in California. Had a thriving business till state taxes and regulations almost ruined it. They packed up and moved to Texas. The business is thriving and so are they. My friend just told me they are selling the business and retiring. She said they wouldn’t have been able to retire if they had stayed in California.


15 posted on 04/18/2014 12:47:14 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Marcella
Ocean, yes.

Waves, no.

16 posted on 04/18/2014 12:47:39 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Gay State Conservative

South Carolina welcomes you!

Blessed by two hundred years of bad publicity, the Palmetto State has race relations that are better than most, our muzzies are seen & not heard, our gun manufacturing base grows monthly, our liberals bemoan the paucity of their numbers, and yes, Lindsey Graham will soon be history.

Morale is high among traditionally minded folks here. Churches abound. We do not have the ideological patchwork you find in North Carolina. No Ashevilles here.

Check out Greenville-Spartanburg for its tech base.

The Civil War officially began just a few blocks from where I live, and the one Starbucks here is a liberal petting zoo, what’s not to like?


17 posted on 04/18/2014 12:54:40 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: skeeter

Here is a trailer for a movie about surfing in Texas, remember that in Texas the water is warm and you can park your car on the beach and camp for weeks at a time, with your guns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOY8GCbHk7o


18 posted on 04/18/2014 12:55:56 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: elcid1970

Why don’t all LIBs move to LIB-run states. Leave the rest of us alone. LIBs should never be given any authority, responsibility or power. All they are worth is a laugh. What putrid, destructive morons.


19 posted on 04/18/2014 12:57:35 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ansel12
Well I could go for warmer water.

But no point breaks. And I don't think I could last between hurricane seasons.

20 posted on 04/18/2014 1:03:20 PM PDT by skeeter
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