Californians moving into Texas will ruin it. First they start getting into the PTA’s then city councils and before you know it they all turn out to be environmentalists, gay activists, socialists, and all manner of big government parasites. the reason they are moving out of California is because they already sucked all the life out of it.
You've just described Austin, Texas.
I encourage conservatives to move to Michigan because there is no better time to seize control and turn the state around.
Hunting and fishing here matches anything the country has to offer. We sit dead square on top of the Antrim basin shale gas play which is virtually untouched due to idiotic democrat policies. The GOP holds overwhelming control of the state government now. In some of our congressional districts 100 conservative votes can mean the difference in election outcomes.
I’m betting that 5000 new conservatives could cause Michigan economically to rival Texas in a decade.
Texas is more than a place...it's a state of mind. Parents like me visit our children's schools on Veteran's Day to tell them the true meaning of the holiday.
In middle school, they get a full year of Texas History.
Newcomers of all stripes learn the meaning of competition, from socializing to sports. Texas has per capita the most beautiful women in the world, despite what the Beach Boys say about California girls.
Places of worship continue to boom as well. My parish has grown from 400 families to over 7000 families in the past 15 years. Baptist and Protestant churches are in continual expansion mode, too.
Austin is the anamoly, but that's ok. Our legislature meets every other year, and it's been dominated by Republicans for over a decade.
Don't discount the positive effect of tort reform in assessing our ability to keep a check on liberalism. The TX state licensing board is barely able to keep up with certifying doctors moving into Texas.
Finally, Dallas has one of the largest gay communities in the country. Texans are truly a "live and let live" kind of folk...people want to be left alone to do their own thing.
Texas is a special place with special people. I wasn't born here, but I got here as fast as I could.
I've told my three children I've done two special things for them they can't take away from me: one, I made sure they were born in Texas; two, I taught them how to swim.
Anything extra is pure gravy.
We already have Austin. We don’t need Californians.
You must know the members of the Austin Silly council. Austin is the largest city in the country that elects all members at large, but may go to single member districts. The EVs, gays and UT students are the largest block of voter turnout. I'm glad we live outside the city.
Not all Californians are as you describe. Jim Robinson mentioned he was moving from California to Texas a while back, and we once had a governor named Reagan that most of Texas liked...the kind that are likely to flee to Texas are fed up conservatives.