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"With all the Yankee liberals moving to the South, the dems may believe that they will take over politically. Infiltrate and conquer."

Methinks you have it wrong. The Yankees moving south are more likely Yankee CONSERVATIVES who have gotten fed up with "blue-state" policies and politics. I suspect the doctrinaire Yankee liberal types wouldn't even contemplate contaminating their intellectual and moral superiority by condescending to move among a bunch of conservative rednecks.

Methinks you have it wrong. The Yankees moving south are more likely Yankee CONSERVATIVES who have gotten fed up with "blue-state" policies and politics. I suspect the doctrinaire Yankee liberal types wouldn't even contemplate contaminating their intellectual and moral superiority by condescending to move among a bunch of conservative rednecks

The two of you are discussing an issue that has puzzled me for some time.

Like RS, I've been concerned that it may be liberal RAT's moving into red states for economic reasons, and that the southward and westward population shift might lead to those states becoming less red. For example, my own home town of Durham NC has been growing like crazy, fueled largely by out of state immigrants coming for econonic reasons. Atlanta and Austin also come to mind. And though we can argue the causes (and even whether correlation implies causation), there does appear to be an unmistakable link between population density and RAT voting patterns, and as redstate populations grow, they also grow denser.

I'd like to think that WW's comment about the type of person who'd emigrate to a red state is true. Certainly I'd think very hard about emigrating to a blue state. And yet I'm concerned that he may be whistling past the graveyard. Is there any data on the voting habits of people who move from blue states to red states?

I hope you are right.

You are so right.
We are Christian and Conservative Republicans and we retired from NJ to NC. We were tired of feeling as if we did not belong. We volunteered during the last election to work at the Republican Headquarters. Most of the people that came in all enthused about Bush were transplants. We spent more time with the transplants talking about how important it was to vote the Republicans in. Maybe it is because coming from different areas we are more aware of what the Democrats stand for.On our street the transplants are all solid Republicans and want to talk about it. I was shocked to find so many Democrats down here especially in the Church. Up North if you are a Christian it is taken for granted that you are a Republican, especially since the Clinton era.