Poll Shows Nearly Half of Illinoisans Want to Leave State

NBC Chicago ^ | 10/10/2016 | Tom Schuba

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According to a new poll conducted by Southern Illinois University’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, 47 percent of registered Illinois voters want to leave the state.

In comparison, 51 percent of the poll's respondents said they’d prefer to remain in the state, while 2 percent remained undecided. According to the poll, 20 percent of respondents said it was likely, somewhat likely or likely that they’d leave the state in the coming year. Nearly 80 percent said it was unlikely.

Respondents cited the state’s taxes, weather, government and jobs as the main reasons for wanting to leave the state. According to the poll, 27 percent cited taxes, 16 percent blamed the weather, 15 percent cited government and 13 percent pointed to jobs and education.

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Moving to the Florida “west coast”? Well, welcome to my neighborhood.

BTW, I was born in Puerto Rico, brought up mostly in NYC. Moved to Tampa in 1987. I was a democrat early in my adult life, but learned a lot as I grew “older” and have been conservative for close to 40 years. I’m the exception in my family, but they still look up to me for just about anything, even as they still vote dumb.

Miami is mostly Cuban and Latinos from Central and South America. Puerto Ricans like the I4 corridor, including Orland and Kissimmee and the Tampa area. Along with Puerto Ricans, there is also a large Mexican population scattered around the Tampa area.

Puerto Ricans moving from the island is a fairly recent event, and what I’ve seen is a lot of us Puerto Ricans moving south from NY and Illinois and Connecticut and Massachussetts and New Jersey; mostly from the northeast.

However, Puerto Ricans are not enough in numbers to switch Florida from conservative to liberal, but their numbers have made a difference. I’m still a conservative, AND!!!, much to your disapproval, still “Puerto Rican”.

My “meme” is about how Florida has been trending liberal, for too many years now. That you have a large family who are conservatives, won’t make much difference to what’s happening in Florida, since, no matter how many republicans/conservatives move to Florida, the number of liberals moving in outnumber us; so, “my meme” is not about the lesser number of republicans/conservative moving south; it’s about how the liberals fleeing the liberal states bring their putrid politics with them.

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Yes, though you might want to gift Duluth & the Iron Range to Ontario.