[Aetius]

I tend to agree with the skeptics. What reason is there to believe that left-of-center types fleeing California and the Northeast will leave their ideology behind? Just look at northern Virginia, Florida, and New Hampshire. And of course much of the population growth in the Red States comes from pro-Democrat immigration.

If there was something in the water, soil, or air in the South and SunBelt that magically makes one more conservative then I might see this as reason to rejoice, but since there isn't, I don't.

[Integrityrocks]

We know that voters are more liberal when they are young and become more conservative after paying taxes and having children of their own. The hipi & Pro Choice generation is either getting to the conservative stage or they aborted their young, leaving conservatives to populate. It is simple math that the conservative population will continue to expand.

[SamAdams76]

I am in Atlanta right now and many of the people here are transplants from blue states like New Jersey, Massachusetts and Michigan. It is obvious that most of these people aren't converting to conservatism. They are bringing their socialist values with them. Atlanta is as if you took Boston or Detroit and dropped it into the Deep South. And every day, more of them move here.

So we cannot sit on our hands and rejoice about all the Northerners moving to the Sun Belt. There is much work to be done to keep the red states red.

[samm1148]

Alot of New Yorkers moved to the Pocono Mountains to escape the sewage from the city. (ABC's AM 770 Ron Kuby, the liberal attorney who shafted Bernard Goetz is among some who live there now). The Poconos has already started to de-generate into a cesspool since that happened. Higher proposed property taxes, outlandish envoronmental policies, and an increased need for permits for this and that. Thanks New Yorkers!