Posted on 05/31/2021 5:56:14 AM PDT by The Houston Courant
California’s reputation began sinking well before COVID-19 restrictions hastened the descent. Homelessness has soared; cost of living has squeezed even many middle-income earners; taxes have towered above those of other states, with lawmakers now threatening to raise them higher; and crime has risen. Last month, Chief Executive magazine ranked California the least business-friendly state.
For eight years now, these phenomena have spurred emigration. The exodus from the Golden State has perturbed the left for the bad light in which it casts progressive domestic policy, but also the right for the impact California’s departees stand to exert on their new, often more conservative, states. As Kristin B. Tate warns in The Liberal Invasion of Red State America, “The seismic shift of Democrats moving to purple and red states will likely lead to painful surprises for Republicans—including the likelihood that Texas and Georgia will be swing states in the 2020s or 2030s.” Even so, California will lose political clout over the next decade in the form of a congressional seat. (Population determines congressional apportionment.)
All the negative attention California has drawn has goaded some central-planning devotees into damage-control mode, using Texas as a foil. Their argument is threefold: Californians aren’t really moving to Texas in staggering numbers, California doesn’t overtax middle-class residents in comparison with Texas, and the mostly free-market model followed by Texas and rejected by California doesn’t work anyway. None of these contentions hold up to scrutiny.
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Well, won’t hurt my feelings if California liberals who came to Texas should turn their @$$’$ around go back to where they came from. Bye 👋🏼 …
An excellent piece. Thanks.
This is Grapes of Wrath in reverse. I wonder what Steinbeck would make of it. Migrants from California come to Oklahoma, looking for work as software engineers or lawyers, and the locals want no part of them. They’re living out of their fancy camper, wondering where there’s night life or a decent theater...
Last name of the family is Joad, and they’re descended from the original Joads...
That's not why they're perturbed at all: They're perturbed b/c their tax base is fleeing.
They can't fleece the illegals and homeless they love so much to fund their lefty schemes.
This is why they'd like to impose and exit tax.
With all due respect, I believe that Houston and Austin have large homeless problems too.
When Californians started moving to Texas in big numbers, the concern of many Texans — especially conservatives who have dominated Texas politics for decades — was that those crazy, lefty Californians would bring their progressive politics with them. But it appears that Californians are making Texas, well, more like Texas.Turns out that ex-pats living in — and voting in — Texas supported Senator Ted Cruz in his high-profile reelection bid by a 15 percent margin, with an older poll of Californians in Texas suggesting that by more than 2 to 1, they’re conservative vs. liberal.
https://www.hjta.org/california-commentary/did-california-save-ted-cruz/
Californicators go home!
You mean, excessive exposure to woke BS has alienated them from it? This is too good! With ex pats comes congressional seats. And gun owners, who want to go hunting (hopefully for Cartel operatives on the other side of the river, while they’re taunting Border Patrol operatives)!
I know this is anecdotal but I’ve had a number of family members and close friends depart California for Texas - and a few for Arizona. All hard-core Republicans. All vote religiously.
Californicators go home!
here in Georgia, we are getting immigrants from all of the east coast blue states. I swear that you can play the license plate game and get all of the blue state tags in 30 minutes.
“I know this is anecdotal but I’ve had a number of family members and close friends depart California for Texas - and a few for Arizona. All hard-core Republicans. All vote religiously.”
What we often see is the following when Californians leave California:
1. Liberals and even camo/closet liberals move to Oregone or the State of Washington.
2. Conservatives move to Texas, and now many are going to Floriduh! They often rent homes on the Cali N. or S. Oregone coastal areas for summer and early fall to escape the summer heat in their new southern home areas.
3. The really super rich elite liberals move to the out of state ski resort areas to be with other super rich elites, aka Elite Democrat escapees. The states with these resorts: Idaho, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana are often new home areas for these liberal former California Snow Birds.
Nice try. Houston and Austin are very liberal enclaves in Texas.
NYC made me into a Republican. Then George W. Bush made me into an independent.
Texas and Florida are where the huddled masses go if they’re yearning to breath free. Oregon and Washington are where they go if they’re still insane, because they believe all that stuff about Texas being cross-burners’ paradise.
Addendum: Aside from politics, Florida is a horror. Retirees in their golden years are like cats. I worked a kosher deli, and the more I saw of them, the more I wanted to run. Instead of “meow,” it’s “Is it fresh?” “Are you sure it’s fresh?” “You aren’t just saying that, are you?” “What do you mean, you’re out of chopped liver?” “Oh, you do have a little more. Is it fresh?” After that, I made aliyah.
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