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City Exodus: Americans Flock to Red States as Blue States Grapple with Economic Woes
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 03/04/2024 5:08:35 AM PST by davikkm

A noticeable trend is emerging as people pack their bags and relocate, with a clear pattern of migration from Democrat-controlled cities to Republican-leaning havens. The top destinations for those seeking greener pastures include Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tampa, Orlando, and Sacramento, signaling a shift in residential preferences.

Conversely, the cities experiencing an exodus are predominantly from Democratic strongholds – San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Chicago. What’s driving this migration pattern?

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: cities; city; crime; economy; exodus
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1 posted on 03/04/2024 5:08:35 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm
What’s driving this migration pattern?

What is people democrapping in their own nest for 10,000, Alex.

2 posted on 03/04/2024 5:12:11 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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To: davikkm

Sorry but the website at the link is nearly unreadable with all the trash and popups.


3 posted on 03/04/2024 5:13:28 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: davikkm
City Exodus: Americans Flock to Red States as Blue States Grapple with Economic Woes

Just don't bring any Cesspool Blue State actions, thinking or voting with you!

4 posted on 03/04/2024 5:14:22 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: davikkm

Liberals always think they can do it better somewhere else. And conservatives just let them do it.


5 posted on 03/04/2024 5:15:56 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: davikkm

Avoid the ‘rat kill zone$.


6 posted on 03/04/2024 5:16:21 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: davikkm

Unfortunately, after a few election cycles, these blue city migrants will change their new cities into what they left behind.


7 posted on 03/04/2024 5:17:01 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: CatOwner

Normally, I would agree with you, but in my State of Florida, I think the opposite is happening.

Florida has never been redder, the state has nearly 1 million more registered Republicans than Democrats, 6-7 years ago, the exact opposite was true.

The mass movement of people from blue states to red states is producing states that get redder and the states they are leaving are getting bluer.

New York is the prime example, the state continues to deteriorate yet Republicans are losing statewide elections by wider margins, back to Florida the exact opposite is happening, IMO, any halfway normal person is leaving, and the diehard liberals are stay creating the worst of all possible situations for NY.


8 posted on 03/04/2024 5:22:04 AM PST by srmanuel ( )
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To: srmanuel
Normally, I would agree with you, but in my State of Florida, I think the opposite is happening.

A major part of Florida becoming redder is the aggressive policy of enforcing voting fraud laws and cleaning up the voting process.

9 posted on 03/04/2024 5:24:40 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: davikkm

That’s nothing a few thousand more ‘migrants’ couldn’t fix........Send them some more!.....................


10 posted on 03/04/2024 5:25:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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“....Republican-leaning havens..... include Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tampa, Orlando, and Sacramento”

Ummmm, WHAT?

Whoever wrote (or thinks) that is an idiot to the 10th power. Just because Tampa and Orlando are located in the state of Florida hardly makes them “Republican-leaning” in any way.

And of course the GOP does so well in close elections in Nevada and Arizona, which are totally free from any kind of fraud, because of their control of “Republican-leaning” Las Vegas and Phoenix.

It is true, and has been true for merely several decades now so it’s hardly “news”, that people (not ONLY including good people) flee from the hellholes they’ve created in places like California, New York, the entire northeast, Illinois, etc.

And it is true that they flee to good (for now) areas like Florida, Texas, and the on-their-way-downhill places like Utah, Montana and Idaho (all striving to be the next Colorado, apparently), but it’s ludicrous to conflate the specific massive, corrupt, Democrat cities mentioned, with the good areas of the states they happen to lie in.


11 posted on 03/04/2024 5:26:10 AM PST by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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“ The top destinations for those seeking greener pastures include Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tampa, Orlando, and Sacramento,”

Say what? Sacramento? Seriously? I stopped reading right here.


12 posted on 03/04/2024 5:27:38 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: srmanuel; CatOwner
Normally, I would agree with you, but in my State of Florida, I think the opposite is happening. Florida has never been redder, the state has nearly 1 million more registered Republicans than Democrats, 6-7 years ago, the exact opposite was true.

I'm afraid I have to lean on CatOwner's take of Dim voters moving to red states usually leading to their new states becoming blue. Florida may be an anomaly by having a huge percentage of the state being retirees -- a generation that doesn't want anything to do with transanity and such. But unfortunately other generations, especially Gen Z/millennials, might can swallow that hedonism stuff if it means more Santa Claus government giving them freebies.

13 posted on 03/04/2024 5:27:43 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: davikkm
...predominantly from Democratic strongholds strangleholds.

Fixed

14 posted on 03/04/2024 5:27:44 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: marktwain

That’s true, the reason they are able to do that is because they elect more and more actual Republicans.

Not since post-Civil War reconstruction have Democrats been this far down in Florida, no Democrat holds statewide office in Florida, both houses of the state legislature have Republican supermajorities.

The most recent action of the University of Florida firing all their DEI staff effective immediately is another example of Republicans starting act like they campaign. Ben Sasse not a great US Senator from Nebraska is the President of UF carried out the action.


15 posted on 03/04/2024 5:28:23 AM PST by srmanuel ( )
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To: davikkm

I’d like to live in a city where I can walk into a store and everything isn’t locked up behind sheets of plexiglass - while I worry about my car windows being smashed in in the parking structure.


16 posted on 03/04/2024 5:29:04 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Tell It Right

Perhaps, the opposite of Red States getting redder is blue states getting bluer, in places like NY no matter how bad they get, Democrats keep winning and the margins of victory are just as big if not bigger, meaning that even middle of the road conservatives are leaving, same for Illinois and other really blue states.

Besides the voting issues, Blue States fight tooth and nail to count illegal immigrants in the census, the main reason they do this is to cut their losses in terms of congressional districts. If you didn’t count illegal immigrants, Florida would have 2-4 more congressional seats and NY would have 2-4 fewer, that becomes huge on who controls the congress in Washington.


17 posted on 03/04/2024 5:34:46 AM PST by srmanuel ( )
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To: srmanuel

“Florida has never been redder, the state has nearly 1 million more registered Republicans than Democrats, 6-7 years ago, the exact opposite was true.

The mass movement of people from blue states to red states is producing states that get redder and the states they are leaving are getting bluer.”

Voting registration counts (especially in the South) are a LAGGING indicator of voting patterns, not a LEADING indicator.

The other major destinations — Texas and Arizona (also Georgia) — are absolutely not getting any “redder” as a result of their invasion. The invasion of Mexican/Chinese sewage across the open border is far less of a reason for that (for now) than the invasion from WITHIN the U.S. Florida is, for the moment, an anomaly and as recently as 2018 was on the brink of tipping.

It came t-h-a-t close to electing a racist drug-addled faggot Democrat as Governor and if it has done so nobody would be using “Florida” and “red” in the same sentence today.


18 posted on 03/04/2024 5:36:24 AM PST by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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To: davikkm

I spend about half the year in AZ. Phoenix is not the red state haven this author states that it is. Not sure of it’s CA transplants or what but the Phoenix metro area is purple (at least) and is becoming increasingly blue.


19 posted on 03/04/2024 5:45:56 AM PST by No Party Affiliation
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Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt...


20 posted on 03/04/2024 5:46:30 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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