TEXAS MORE RED FROM BLUE STATE EXODUS

Breitbart Texas ^ | April 17,2014 | KRISTIN TATE

[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.

[PLMerite]

It looks lovely. The one person I know/knew in Texas lives in Lamar County. Don’t know how close or far I’ll want to be by then.

[Arrowhead1952]

.....If Austin wasn’t up to speed for liberal Henry, he certainly wasted his sweet time getting the hell out.

I moved here from CA as a child and can’t imagine living anywhere else.

Yup, and the comments after the letter were telling him the same thing. I don't have a FB page, but came close to signing up yesterday just to add my comment. KLBJ is a conservative talk show radio station that is in Austin, but strong enough that almost reaches to the DFW area.

We have some Hispanic neighbors living up the street, Both retired from their jobs in Ca. years ago. They sold their small house there for about 1/4 million dollars. Bought a new house here, put in a pool, bought a boat, new SUV for him, new car for her, and still had money left over to pay for the grandkids' college. They were so bored, they both got jobs again.

[deport]

Mountain? Just curious.

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Google Trans Pecos Region Texas and you'll get info.

[GOPsterinMA]

Nice work, BB!

[central_va]

Interesting. Now we have actual studies that proving southern freepers theories that "liberal yankee translants" made their states elect marxist RATs are wrong.

Not a theory because I've seen this first hand.

[BillyBoy]

Like I said, I would happy to test your “facts” and take back every one of our “yankee transplants” (we could sure use the votes of ex-Illinois residents now living in Florida and Arizona) and you guys can have back all the southerners that moved up here. The most outspoken marxists were have here were all born in Dixie.

[elcid1970]

Greenville-Spartanburg is the nearest commercial airport to Asheville, but the hippie enclave in the hills is worlds away from South Carolina.

“all three cities are in the same metro” - don’t get it.