Trust me, you don't want them even if they call themselves conservatives. A real conservative would have left long before the taxes ran them out. I live in the south and what New Yorkers call conservative would be a screaming leftist here. They usually start with "this place would be great if there were decent government services". It then moves on to "my neighbor's always target shooting over there. That scares me, nobody needs to do that, he might hit my house. The sheriff should do something about that".
Liberals hate paying taxes more than conservatives. They think "the rich" should pay taxes, not them. Of course their definition of "the rich" is anyone making more than them. Don't think for a second that just because they're fleeing high taxes they're not leftists.
You’re correct. There’s a big difference between a NYC Conservative, and a Texas Conservative.