Why Texans Don’t Want Any More Californians

The Atlantic ^ | 01/31/2020 | Derek Thompson

[dandiegirl]

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.

[Oatka]

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?

The authot left out "It was a dark and stormy night."

[Clemenza]

Irony of ironies is that NJ has a higher per capita income and higher percentage of degree holders than NY does.

In reality, all states should look down on the corrupt degenerate basket case that is Connecticut.

[Crucial]

Because they spread like locusts?

[Crucial]

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.

[Jane Long]

[dfwgator]

"Don't California My Texas!"

[DeplorableGirl]

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!

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Colorado was red when we moved here in '68. But starting even before that, and accelerating over the years, a migration of mostly upper middle-class California refugees turned it purple, and now we're well on our way to solid blue.

Back then, our slogan was "DON'T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO".

Nobody listened.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

A Colorado oldtimer once commented on the regional differences in humidity. He told us, "Back East you blow your nose. Out here you pick it."

His very prim & proper wife was rather chagrined.

[SirLurkedalot]

Roughly 10 yrs ago I moved from CA to TX to be a Texan. I’ve never voted Democrat.

[DeplorableGirl]

Lol 😃 Sit in a sauna with a wet hot towel over your head & try to breathe while the energy is sucked right out of you. Summer in Louisiana. Weather is so interesting to me.

[Mr Fuji]

Works for me unfortunately.

[dragnet2]

I got off the aircraft in Dallas some years ago and my sunglasses were fogging over. A steam bath. Like being on the surface of Venus. My driver quipped I'd get used to it. I told um I wouldn't be there that long.☺

[JimRed]

They bring along the unfortunate voting habits that ruined California.

[eyedigress]

That is a very true statement.

Quite the riddle for all of us.

[DeplorableGirl]

Yeah it can be dicey! But we do actually have winter in Louisiana. Last year it was on a Tuesday. 😃🇺🇸

[txnativegop]

they can’t do that, they are one and the same.

[txnativegop]

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)

[Susquehanna Patriot]

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.