[AnotherUnixGeek]

"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?'"

He's kidding himself, and he's got a short memory. Just 30 years ago, California was "Reagan Country", and the birthplace of the Jarvis-Gann tax revolt. That California is gone, undone by illegal immigration and by an inflow of folks from the Northeast attracted by the booming economy - people who showed up and promptly voted for the same liberal politicians and policies who'd created the Rust Belt economic conditions they'd fled.

Now that California's economy is a shambles, people are leaving - working people, that is, and those who actually want to find a job. And they're leaving for Texas and Nevada. Unfortunately, most people simply can't or won't make the connection between the rotten economy they fled and the Democrats who caused it, and will continue to vote Democrat.

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That California is gone, undone by illegal immigration and by an inflow of folks from the Northeast attracted by the booming economy - people who showed up and promptly voted for the same liberal politicians and policies who'd created the Rust Belt economic conditions they'd fled.

Those were factors. But so was rising affluence. A lot of rich Republicans' kids went to fancy schools and turned Democrat. Immigration and internal migration nailed down the Democrats' advantage, but plenty of Reagan Republicans raised Democrat children.