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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Reminds me of Detroit's "White Flight" in the late sixties and throughout the seventies.
And we all know how that turned out.
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).
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.
They're not all affluent. A lot of people moving to Coeur d'Alene are retired civil servants, like police.
But are they Republican?
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.
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.
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.
I noticed on my last trip out to Missoula, MT that Missoula is pretty darned liberal these days.
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.
LA will become Las Santas.
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.
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. ;-)
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."
Thank God. The important thing to do is to embrace the 'frozen hellhole full of hicks' stereotype, not fight it.
The article is a bit dated--2002.
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.
The Billionaires and running out the millionaires in White Fish.
Ah! Right-o. I get your point. You're absolutely right.
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