My wife is from Illinois, and most of her relatives still live there with winters in Floriduh, Arizona or Texas.
In spite of the summer heat and tornadoes, they have friends and family there, don’t live in the Chicago Area, and they like Illinois in spite of being conservatives.
They don’t take any Chicago newspapers and don’t watch Chicago TV news stations. If they don’t leave Illinois for good shortly after high school or finishing college. They seem to stay there. They live in conservative bubbles away from Chicago and liberals.
We see the same pattern out here on the West Coast. A lot conservatives in Washington and Oregon don’t live in the Seattle, Portland and university areas controlled by liberals. They get in their RVs in late October and head to
the desert area of S California, Nevada and Arizona to avoid the wet cold miserable winters in the NW. I5 South during late October/Early November looks like a moving RV/Trailer herd.
About Easter time to the end of April, they head back north to their nice homes, conservatitve towns and their conservative friends (many of whom head south with the herd and with them in October.) Basically they ignore the liberals in Spokane, Portland and in the liberal university cities/towns during that time.
Cold truth: It’s not winter that’s driving people out of Illinois
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What’s cooled the affection of the people and bunesses here and elsewhere toward this area is the glacial speed with which leaders in Springfield and Chicago have moved to address financial problems and other urgent matters dragging everyone down.
Trying to turn up the heat on these people has been like trying to light a match on a windy day.
Not one but two national moving companies recently reported ushering enough households out of this state last year to make Illinois seem a draining bathtub.
Allied Van Lines said it moved more households out of Illinois last year than from any other state, followed by Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan. Illinois was No. 3 for United Van Lines, trailing New York and New Jersey.
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Sounds to me as if the Civil War has not yet ended and the South is in the process of winning.