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LOL...once they move out there they usually do not stay liberal long....unless they move to a compound dedicated to liberal views.
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You’d think, right?

Over 40 years ago, my area was targeted. First some 4th gen billionaires from political families with rumored occult practices, followed by handfuls at a time of millionaire scions and several handfuls of the comfortable from the same generation.

Those were the change agents. Myriad seemingly-innocent special interest groups were formed that strangely enough were not very accepting of clueless locals who were also interested and were then either inculcated or frozen out. There was also a concurrent surge of hippies, aka: back to the land movement.

A private Waldorf school was formed/chartered. An Anthroposophical High School followed. Ten years later, a short-lived public charter using Waldorf/Anthroposophical curricula was attempted, but the results were so dismal, it was terminated. Many of the original families involved relocated from upstate NY and Colorado where established Anthroposophical communities already existed. Many parents moved here for the school. A proportion of locals sent their kids who are now sending their kids.

With multiple state grants ($500,000/per grant), an organic co-operative was formed. Originally, it was for vegetables. It rapidly incorporated dairy. Today, it is privately held, worth billions and is the largest employer paying the best salaries in the area. It draws millennials for executive positions (let that sink in). It imports cattle feed from China (remember: largest _organic_ dairy coop at the time. There was a scandal NOT covered by the local paper, an affiliate of a large leftist syndicate.). The state grantor agency was headed by a person who joined NORMAL and associated groups after retirement....at the BoD level. I’m not including the rumors based on anecdotal evidence that abound in that area of speculation. All told, the entire operation mushroomed in a 5-8 year time period. There was evidence of out-of-state (likely family) money and similar political influence at the State level.

The entire county was turned from red to blue by 2008, roughly 30 years of serious effort after the first 10 years of seemingly random population flow. Some _was_ random/clueless. Most went along, including the children of the locals.

In the 2016 election, the first certified results (township maps)showed a solid blue county with isolated red dots. The NSA corrected results map showed the small town and adjacent townships as blue and the rest of the county solid red.

Today, it is something like the Asheville, NC area. The original local population HATES the town and the feeling is reciprocated. Now, the rural properties are in demand from urban dwellers, many from California, a lot from Minneapolis and Chicago.

We may be ok politically for 2020, but I’m cautious in that optimism. County Board, Town Council, School Board are all drifting or solidly prog. This year will be the first year a non-generational local most likely becomes mayor. The original populace is aging or passed. Many of their kids moved away. The ones who stayed aren’t numerous enough to turn the tide, assuming most even want to, and they aren’t young, either. Business is booming, properties are selling, new construction abounds.

It was gradual and relentless and pretty much now a done deal.