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To: ProgressingAmerica

I would say mobility tends weaken commitment to states.
I was born in NC, and have lived in SC, GA, FL, TX, and AR (also Germany). To which state should I be loyal?


5 posted on 05/14/2021 8:45:41 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: Little Ray

Mobility of this sort is much newer (I mean on a wider scale) than the hatreds from progressivism toward the states as important institutions within our government.

To answer your question, it would be your current state. Previous places lived is largely irrelevant.

In a sense you are an immigrant. Do you favor assimilation? Why would you move to a new state and not assimilate to it?

Consider a frequent gripe of Californians moving to state x and turning state x into a crazy state. Isn’t the real gripe that Californians don’t assimilate when they move? They vote for craziness in California, craziness escalates and gets too crazy, so they relocate to (let’s pick Texas) and they don’t change their voting habits. They are turning Texas crazy because they aren’t becoming Texans.

Californians turned Colorado into California because they didn’t assimilate and now Colorado is crazy.


12 posted on 05/14/2021 9:16:58 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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