It’s very strange to me. I always assumed it was conservatives fleeing CA. Maybe more liberals are, so they can find “quaint” places to raise their kids. I can’t imagine any self-respecting conservative would move out of CA to another state and then start encouraging regulation.
Maybe if we conservatives stick around in CA, it will turn conservative again. Like the liberal flight from LA causing it to be more conservative now. One can dream.
Nice fantasy, but highly implausible.
Thirty five years ago you could take your rifle or shotgun into the Santa Cruz mtns a few miles from town and plink at varmints & abandoned cars. Our front door was left open on summer nights, and I still remember the big initiative to get people to lock their cars ("don't help a good boy go bad").
How did this happen here? To attribute this nations drift to the left on people in one particular region is a rather ignorant oversimplification, IMO. Maybe there's something else going on.
The illegals are flooding in to replace the productive, high income earners. The lack of control over voter registration disenfranchises legal citizens. Don't expect the demographics to ever shift back to the conservative side again.