I’ve lived here since 1984 and I think it’s been the mass influx of Californians that has made our once red state go blue; since they began arriving in droves in the 1990’s, things have gone downhill as far as friendliness, crime and cost of living (I live in El Paso County).
Even liberals want to flee the societies they make.
I lived in Leadville and Salida from 1983 to 2002. That’s exactly what happened. Nice state totally ruined.
I get so tired of posting this over and over, but here goes again...it’s your friggin state that went left, not Californians. Blame the people who’ve lived there for decades, who btw voted for Democrats even in the 80’s (Patsy Schroeder ring a bell?). If there are millions of liberals fleeing CA every election cycle, why is CA going ever more to the left and how is the population keep exploding here? The math just doesn’t fly. Oh, and btw CA was rock solid conservative in the 80s, are those the people that have supposedly left the state after voting for Reagan, Deukmajian and Wilson and somehow went Marxist crossing the CO state line?