[reaganaut1]

If blue state policies work so well, why do their residents leave -- and support the same policies that caused them to leave?

[Jack Hydrazine]

It worked for the blue states of East Germany, Russia, et al.

[BenLurkin]

They are too stupid to see the connection.

It’s the only explanatrion.

[drbuzzard]

If cockroach policies worked so well, why would they spread out from a garbage dump?

The natural tendency to corrupt everything they can?

[Kozak]

Progressive ism is a metastatic disease. It’s about to kill the host.

[Moonman62]

The migration helped President Obama win Colorado, Florida and Virginia in both 2008 and 2012.

.......

The biggest factor that helped Obama win was the GOPe.

[Lazamataz]

Of the 20 million Americans alive today who were born in New York, nearly one in six now live in the South. That would have been almost unthinkable 50 years ago, when the share was one in 25.

I am one of those six.

But, unlike many, I came packed with conservative values.

[BreezyDog]

So the point is that the cancer is spreading?

[sr4402]

And this pattern has played an important role in helping the Democratic Party win the last two presidential elections and four of the last six.

Then, by the same logic, they will start loosing in the states the they have left.

Not only that, but in the states the senior Democrats have gone (like Florida), by the same logic, would go conservative again after the bulk has passed away.

Beyond this, Democrats abort their children more than any other political group, so that should make the problem worse rather than better for them.

[Jewbacca]

Locusts.

They turn their states into wastelands and move on to turn more into wastelands.

[Common Sense 101]

Great. The blue parasites leave their dying host state to infest and destroy a healthy red state; seen these scumbags here in Texas. They go around stating, "Back in Pinkochussettss we had...". The general response back is, "Go the [expletive] back, you ignorant liberal scum. You've already [Expletive] you POS Marxist utopian state, we're not interested in your doing the same here."

Amazing that the libtards don't catch the connection between their parasitic and destructive policies and their dire impact on the conomy and community. Thus, the label, "libtard".

[deadrock]

Cause and effect is a phenomenon unknown to liberals.

[fso301]

Earlier this summer I was with the family in a shopping mall and we bumped into one of my sons social studies teachers who had resigned at the end of the school year to take a job in Virginia teaching. She and presumably her husband are liberals. Both are teachers but taught at different schools.

When asked how it was that she was going from RI to VA, she said the Virginia school district held a job fair here in RI.

I asked if there are not enough teachers in VA? She giggled and said the VA county school board wants its teachers to represent a "more accurate" cross section of America.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

They are like locusts. They destroy their homes and move on to a new home to destroy.

[vette6387]

“If blue state policies work so well, why do their residents leave — and support the same policies that caused them to leave? “

In the vernacular, this is what’s called moving after you’ve crapped up your own nest! The problem is the timeline quoted in the doesn’t go back far enough. Until Jerry the Fairy became governor here in California for the first time (back when he was knocking boots with Linda Ronstadt), this state had been solid Republican. But the westward migration of the Liberal Trash from the Northeast had finally reached critical mass here back then, and this state has been forever transformed. Now “native-born” Coloradans and other Western states are pi$$ed off at California because they see our state’s liberals moving back to their states because they’re not happy with the outcome that their original migration brought. And, as some here have pointed out, this “migratory crap” probably doesn’t even make the connection between their “liberal feelings” and the reality of what they wrought here.

[Alberta's Child]

This article illustrates why the Great Plains will be the last bastion of conservatism in North America. All of the migration noted here is from cold-weather states to warm-weather states. A few more harsh winters in the Northeast, and the only ones left will be those who are hardy enough to handle whatever Mother Nature gives them.

[DNME]

Look at what the silly bastards did to New Hampshire! Once a reliably conservative and Republican stronghold, now even NH drivers act like Massholes.

Any chance they could pass a law that new residents of the state can’t vote for their first 10 years after arrival?

[amnestynone]

It used to be that migrants from the north made the south more Republican. One thing people did not notice is that that is one reason why those northern states became more Dem(GOPers moving south). I think people aren't watching the reverse that some of those states in the north might becoming more GOP friendly with the Dem Exodus. (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and a few others. It won't take much more.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

While it is undoubtedly true that many interstate movers are libs, not all are.

A certain portion of the population of Blue states are conservative to very conservative, residing in those states due to a misfortune of birth, employment, family ties, or other circumstances.

My point: Please don’t paint all Calis and Yankees crossing your state border with a broad brush. Having lived among these idiots, we know far too well how screwed up our states are and only want to be among like minded people.

See ya’ll soon.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Red state pollution. Where’s the EPA (Environmental Political Association) when you need them? Let’s keep the concentration of uber-liberals down to a few ppm in conservative areas. Hell, let’s create national conservative districts, just like the Prez creates national monuments to inhibit use of the land.

[grumpygresh]

It’s progressivism. The goal is the dumbing down and softening of the American people. They have indoctrinated their victims through the media, cultural and educational institutions. The disease of progressivism has infected all states. Only a few areas have limited immunity.