Posted on 01/31/2020 4:24:22 PM PST by DFG
Across a frightened nation divided by politics and culture, a fragile harmony is ascendant, as Americans in small towns and large cities alike cry out in trembling unison: Hey, where did all these Californians come from?
Talk of a “California Exodus” is sweeping the country—and so are anxieties about its effects on the rest of the West. In October, the Boise mayoral candidate Wayne Richey proposed at an election forum to build a $26 billion wall to keep out people moving from the Golden State. (His backup plan to stop the invasion of Boise? "Trash the place.”) A viral Wall Street Journal article recounted the plight of a small Idaho town buckling under the stress of thousands of inbound Californians. And this month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a warning on Twitter to Californians moving to his state: “Remember those high taxes, burdensome regulations, & socialistic agenda advanced in CA? We don't believe in that.” The sentiment was echoed in various warnings in Dallas newspapers about the awful “California-ing” of North Texas.
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Rick Perry was constantly going to CA to get companies to move here. Politicians in Texas are still doing it. Never cared what the residents of the state thought about it. All the once sleepy, in the country suburbs of Dallas are now traffic and apartment buildings and tracts of homes on what was once farmland. Has ruined it for the people that wanted to live a more rural lifestyle.
The authot left out "It was a dark and stormy night."
In reality, all states should look down on the corrupt degenerate basket case that is Connecticut.
Because they spread like locusts?
That’s easy. They give in to their weaknesses, their liberalism and destroy their home cities and states. Then they begin to despise the restrictions and decline that they have caused. But because they are weak people, intellectually, psychologically and spiritually, they are in complete denial of their role in the downfall of their former homes.
"Don't California My Texas!"
Welcome to the humid hell, where
humidity can rob your soul of life
if you let it!! Lol
Here in Louisiana if the humidity
falls below 80% we consider it dry!
Back then, our slogan was "DON'T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO".
Nobody listened.
His very prim & proper wife was rather chagrined.
Roughly 10 yrs ago I moved from CA to TX to be a Texan. I’ve never voted Democrat.
Works for me unfortunately.
They bring along the unfortunate voting habits that ruined California.
That is a very true statement.
Quite the riddle for all of us.
they can’t do that, they are one and the same.
Now, as a good Texan, how could you forget about Oklahoma? I mean seriously! LOL
everyone in the US not from Texas is a foreigner, and then you have the Oklahomans! LOL
(The feeling is mutual from what I hear, LOL)
I had 3 years in Lubbock.
Nothing like parking at a Caprock roadside in the middle of nowhere, a bucket of fried chicken, a beer, and a lawn chair. Or watching that big blue northern bring the dust in, makes one imagine the end of the world. ... Or going out at night in the middle of nowhere (don’t even have to look for nowhere, it is everywhere thee!) where there is no artificial light and seeing the Milky Way in the dry, clear sky. West Texans are a hardy, friendly, patriotic, God-fearing people.
The Kalifornians will pass on that part of the state since it is so different from Yosemite, Monterrey, the Bay, etc etc. May the hot Texas summers force them to move on. God Bless Texas, God Bless America.
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