These newcomers have college degrees, many advanced, and work in high-tech, academia and other specialized fields throughout the state. They are affluent and very liberal.I fit the category of affluent-college-degreed-high-tech worker, but that doesn't make me liberal. Somehow I lack the feeling-guilty-about-my-own-success-so-I-want-to-wreck-capitalism gene that so many of my affluent brethren obviously have.
Probably, because YOU worked for it.
They are liberal because they believe they are smart enough to tell everyone else kow they should live. It is the arrogance of braininess that draws them, not the usual victimology of the leftwing crackpots. They of course also naturally assume that they are exempt from following the dicta they lay down for others.