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Affluent suburbanites fleeing California have made region the biggest Republican bastion
USA Today | 2002 | Tom Kenworthy and Paul Overberg

Posted on 06/23/2005 10:25:57 AM PDT by Syco

Edited on 06/23/2005 11:03:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: california; mountainwest
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1 posted on 06/23/2005 10:25:58 AM PDT by Syco
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Affluent suburbanites fleeing California

Reminds me of Detroit's "White Flight" in the late sixties and throughout the seventies.

And we all know how that turned out.

2 posted on 06/23/2005 10:28:42 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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Yeah all these environmentalists and liberal leftists are moving north to OR and WA. In WA they reside primarily in King County--Seattle (west of the Cascade Mtns). With the population the densest on the west side of the state and the transplanted liberal leftists demoncRATS from CA, they control the politics of the state which explains why WA is a blue state. Talked with an exhausted legislator several months ago during the tax fight in Olympia (BTW pubbies lost the fight). Was informed that the two groups that control WA politics are environmentalists and unions (both heavily centralized in King County).


3 posted on 06/23/2005 10:39:03 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: Syco

The I-5 Liberal migration from California to Oregon and Washington
in the late 80's has absolutely put a stranglehold on the politics of these states.


4 posted on 06/23/2005 10:45:10 AM PDT by philo ("We not only sing , but we can dance just as good as we walk." Archie Bell)
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To: Syco

They're not all affluent. A lot of people moving to Coeur d'Alene are retired civil servants, like police.


5 posted on 06/23/2005 10:46:28 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer

But are they Republican?


6 posted on 06/23/2005 10:47:34 AM PDT by Syco
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We're getting a lot of fairly conservative Californians (fleeing from the Mexicans) here in North Carolina. They seem to get along okay, but are as disappointed as any of the other immigrants when they find out the jobs here are temp jobs only.


7 posted on 06/23/2005 10:50:09 AM PDT by warchild9
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To: Syco
According to the Idaho Department of Transportation, about 53% of the 111,000 people who turned in driver's licenses from other states after moving to Idaho from 1991 through 2001 and getting a license there were from California. In 1993 alone -- the year after the Rodney King beating riots in Los Angeles -- 11,212 Californians changed their licenses to Idaho.

My next door neighbor moved to SD from California right after the trucker (forgot his name) got pulled out of his truck and beaten during the rioting. They vote Republican now, for the first time in their lives. It brings to mind the old saw that a Republican is a Democrat who has been mugged.

8 posted on 06/23/2005 10:52:02 AM PDT by SoDak (A million miles away)
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In Montana, the opposite is happening. More and more libs from California and elsewhere are flooding in over the last few years. The ironic part is that they move here, then try to institute nanny-state nonsense that they ostensibly came here to "get way" from. We went blue in the governorship and both legislative houses in'04, and W's margin wasn't nearly as large as it should have been. I suspect that the state will turn blue in the 2008 presidential elections. Now, Montana's paltry electoral votes are unlikely to make a difference, but our traditional freedoms are being eroded away at the state level, and taxes are on the rise.


9 posted on 06/23/2005 10:52:22 AM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel (Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
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I noticed on my last trip out to Missoula, MT that Missoula is pretty darned liberal these days.


10 posted on 06/23/2005 10:53:35 AM PDT by SoDak (A million miles away)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel

Over here, we seem to be going the other way, thank goodness. There aren't enough Dems in our lower house to fill out committee assignments.


11 posted on 06/23/2005 10:55:30 AM PDT by SoDak (A million miles away)
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To: Syco

LA will become Las Santas.


12 posted on 06/23/2005 10:55:54 AM PDT by johnb838 (Adios, mofo!)
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To: Syco

Of course. But the headline is just perpetuating the myth that all Republicans are rich and selfish. These are just ordinary people who can't stand what California is becoming.


13 posted on 06/23/2005 10:59:07 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: SoDak

I suspect that the "conservatives" fleeing Cali are pretty liberal by our standards. They come here for the mountains or, like Turner, Brokaw, and Letterman, for the ranches on the East side. You are lucky in SD. Rushmore, Sturgis, pheasant hunting, and the Corn Palace probably don't attract them so much. ;-)


14 posted on 06/23/2005 11:00:33 AM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel (Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
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To: Syco

This is from a former COEUR D'ALENE resident I work with:

"When Dan English was a CDA police officer he went after a couple 14 year olds for curfew violation, he gave the kids "the business" and the two 14 year olds overpowered him. They handcuffed him and threw him in the backseat of his own patrol car. The two kids got into his patrol car, and proceeded to drive around town for about an hour with the sirens blaring, eventually they were pulled over. Basically they guy is a real piece of work and everyone in CDA knows it. Pretty much a town joke...the Barney Fife of CDA."


15 posted on 06/23/2005 11:01:16 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel

Thank God. The important thing to do is to embrace the 'frozen hellhole full of hicks' stereotype, not fight it.


16 posted on 06/23/2005 11:05:20 AM PDT by SoDak (A million miles away)
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To: Syco

The article is a bit dated--2002.


17 posted on 06/23/2005 11:05:33 AM PDT by kabar
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To: SoDak

Agreed. I tell everyone that we're in "crazed-loner-in-a-cabin" country. Unfortunately, the bastards come up here to Glacier Park or to ski, and end up invading.


18 posted on 06/23/2005 11:11:49 AM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel (Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel

The Billionaires and running out the millionaires in White Fish.


19 posted on 06/23/2005 11:12:16 AM PDT by BooBoo1000 (Some times I wake up grumpy, other times I let her sleep/)
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To: lady lawyer

Ah! Right-o. I get your point. You're absolutely right.


20 posted on 06/23/2005 11:12:34 AM PDT by Syco
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