Posted on 09/30/2014 5:07:40 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
The Northeast, once the nation’s political engine that produced presidents, House speakers and Senate giants including the late Edward M. Kennedy, is losing clout in Washington as citizens flee the high-tax region, according to experts worried about the trend.
The Census Bureau reports that population growth has shifted to the South and the result is that the 11 states that make up the Northeast are being bled dry of representation in Washington.
Critics blame rising taxes in states such as Massachusetts and Connecticut for limiting population growth in the Northeast to just 15 percent from 1983 to 2013, while the rest of the nation grew more than 41 percent.
The biggest impact comes in the loss of congressional representation.
Deep in a recent report, for example, the American Legislative Exchange Council tabulated how the drop in population relative to the rest of the nation cut the region’s power in Washington. While the states from Pennsylvania to Maine had 141 House members in 1950, they are down to 85 today, a drop of some 40 percent.
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They be singin’ the blues.
They can have the Mexicans.
After all, they voted in the Libs who gutted the immigration laws and opened the borders.
So let them live with the result.
Just think, all the landscaping will get done for a tenth the cost.
Of course, since the jobs all went South, they’ll be competing for the landscaper jobs...
The Northeast is liberal because they are white, in the vast majority. They live in a padded cell.
Lord knows, we don’t need any more liberals in Florida.
As long as I have my land, they’ll never get my imagination.
It’s a bit of an oversimplification to credit tax rates for all the migration. Climate is a major reason as well as regulation. I moved from PA to OK to regain a little freedom. The overall tax burden is about the same.
They never learn, they hit the ground working to screw things up just like they did up north.
As a New Englander proud of our region’s history and heritage, I have to say, the current idiotic voters of these states have only themselves to blame for their present woes and squandering of that heritage.
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