Posted on 09/30/2014 6:24:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Northeast, once the nations 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.
This result is one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in American history. This migration is shifting the power center of America right before our very eyes. The movement isnt random or even about weather or resources. Economic freedom is the magnet and states ignore this force at their own peril, said the report.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Wouldn’t these be a lot of democrat seats?
Let the NE Leftist bastards bleed to death. They won’t be missed.
Yeah, but we outnumber them...
This is good news if the folks that move are not Socialists/Progressive/Communists. If they are, tell them to stay put, we don’t need them here in the Southeast.
All you folks living in Southern states which are receiving a good amount of these Yankee liberal types, you need to be loud and proud with your Southern culture. Either scare them back home, or convert them (or convert their kids). Good luck.
I moved from New Jersey to Texas in 1988 in part to get away from the limousine liberal mentality. Unlike some Yankees I run into down here, Texas is my home. Queen Sheila the carpetbagger needs to go back to Jackson Heights, Queens, Noo Yawk.
Not all of us are up here willingly and the less people here the better. I’m here only because my dad retired here from the AF in 1972 and I’m here for work (which has provided me a very stable and good paying job).
Yes, they do tend to soil where they move to but 50% of them are conservatives getting out of Dodge too.
FWIW, my relatives are in NC and I do just fine there with the most hardened of Southerners.
Good... I live in the blue Northeast and I hate it! I love the seasons and love the beauty, but I hate the way conservatives have no voice. So if our blue states up here lose their significance and their power to influence the rest of the country, then cheers to all who leave and a great big thank you to all. We can’t seem to vote them out, so silencing them is next best thing I guess. Sorry to the states getting our progressives, but power to the ones getting our conservatives, which I believe are the majority of those bailing out. I hope to leave as soon as I retire.
The Northeast actually began its decent into irrelevance in the 60’s, with the decline of Route 128, IBM, and basically the entirety of upstate NY, which was once a high-tech and industrial powerhouse (hard to believe, but true).
When I was a kid, most TV/radio originated in NYC.
Bottom line, the country’s center of gravity has moved southwest, and there’s very little that the NE can do about it, except change, which they won’t.
We have tried for decades.
The damned union Yankees are like locusts or an out of control virus.
They swarm and infest/infect every area they come in contact with, after they leave their original host state/nation.
We are not allowed to “discriminate”, and must allow them to nest wherever they wish to swarm.
And they all wish to “swarm” after achieving retirement/disability designations elsewhere, to states with no income taxes.
Its like a cancer. Libs kill their host, and move on to new cells.
M*A*S*H portrayed Charles Emerson Winchester as a crusty, rich, conservative from Back Bay (Boston). My how times have changed...except for the “rich” and “crusty” parts. :-)
David Ogdon Stiers, who played the part, based him on William Buckley.
I was unaware of that piece of trivia.
A memorable quote:
“Know this. You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer!”
Even the ladies?
Yes. Unionization drove all of that sort of manufacturing to Japan. In 1960 electronics was all the rage and there were hundreds of US companies with names that ended in -ion or -eon. Today only one company, Raytheon, survives from that era.
That’s him.
exactly. The companies are fleeing and the people go where they can find a job.
They're like Parasitic bacteria...once they kill their hosts, they move on to another healthy body.
The blue states will probably try exit taxes.
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