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Americans Are Migrating To More Free Republican States
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 03/28/2013 | John Merline

Posted on 03/28/2013 5:28:49 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Americans are migrating from less-free liberal states to more-free conservative states, where they are doing better economically, according to a new study published Thursday by the George Washington University's Mercatus Center.

The "Freedom in the 50 States" study measured economic and personal freedom using a wide range of criteria, including tax rates, government spending and debt, regulatory burdens, and state laws covering land use, union organizing, gun control, education choice and more.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beststates; freedom; freestates; migration; obama; redstates; trends
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1 posted on 03/28/2013 5:28:49 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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look closely - the libs are invading and infiltrating the red states and causing serious infections.


2 posted on 03/28/2013 5:31:29 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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And some fearless Americans are staying for the fight!

Colorado will evict the liberals in 2014.


3 posted on 03/28/2013 5:32:29 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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Sadly, they are bringing their socialist voting habits with them. There is nothing like someone from the Northeast finishing up telling everyone why they left their NE hell hole and then declaring that what we really need down here in bumpkinville is higher taxes to pay for all those wonderful programs they had in the NE.


4 posted on 03/28/2013 5:32:29 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: elpadre

Sure about that?


5 posted on 03/28/2013 5:32:55 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: SampleMan

Exactly.


6 posted on 03/28/2013 5:34:05 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: elpadre

Maybe the libs should put into practice the saying, “when in Rome, do as the Romans do!” In other words, put out in the trash with the stuff that goes into the trash, your liberal thinking.


7 posted on 03/28/2013 5:34:17 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: elpadre

There is that “danger”,
but really, it takes a lot of effort to pack up and move,
and you have to know that you’re moving to a place that
has a different political viewpoint than your own, as well.

So, those that move are probably more likely to assimilate than your average sheeperal.

But! The free republic states of America need to be looking at strongly asserting their 10th amendment rights,
or the libs in the blue states will use federal law to force them to be in “the social contract”, which simply means stealing from the productive to give to the non-productive.


8 posted on 03/28/2013 5:35:15 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SampleMan

In other words, put your liberal viewpoints out to the trash also.


9 posted on 03/28/2013 5:35:42 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: elpadre

Yeah. I am a transplant to NC from the North, BUT did not move here to change the culture or way of life. WAY too many moving here from NY, NJ, PN,OH fleeing the mess they’ve created who get here and all you hear out of them is “ Thats not the way way did it in “blank”. Proceed to want to recreate the same sh#t they just moved away from.


10 posted on 03/28/2013 5:36:33 AM PDT by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: elpadre

look closely - the libs are invading and infiltrating the red states and causing serious infections.

That happens a lot. Just do a search on, within quotes, “The suicide of Marlboro Man”. It sums it up nicely.

Meanwhile, I’m a staunch conservative and I moved from my home of 45 years, Seattle, to central Kentucky. My vote still doesn’t count, but for exactly the opposite reason. :-)


11 posted on 03/28/2013 5:39:24 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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So, those that move are probably more likely to assimilate than your average sheeperal.

cough * Mexico * cough

12 posted on 03/28/2013 5:41:34 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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WAY too many moving here from NY, NJ, PN,OH fleeing the mess they’ve created who get here and all you hear out of them is “ Thats not the way way did it in “blank”.


Hahaha! I actually say that to the people here in central KY (moved here from Seattle). But the difference is that I follow it up with, “and that’s why I moved here!”


13 posted on 03/28/2013 5:41:49 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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The incidence of Leftwingtardism correlates well with mosquito infestations.

The more people in an area, the more upturned containers that can hold sufficient fresh water to allow mosquitos to breed. The more mosquitos, the more Leftwingtards.

I do not believe this to be a KOINKYDINK!

Those mosquitos are pumping something into people that turns them into Leftwingtards. I also believe EPA knows what it is ~ over the last 30 years they have made a number of decisions regarding mosquito eradication that serve only to make it harder to get rid of them. Most recently they were willing to allow passing whales (who migrate near the shore) to die from encephilitis being spread around by mosquitos. Their concern was with the well being of California's mosquito eating toads.

14 posted on 03/28/2013 5:42:48 AM PDT by muawiyah
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Agreed. I was at a Boy Scout meeting and a new mother said she was so glad they moved here because her husband found work here and a much cheaper house, but she wished we had more social services like California.
It did not occur to her that the latter caused the lack of the former.


15 posted on 03/28/2013 5:43:07 AM PDT by tbw2
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An these migrants from liberal states are bringing their ways with them.
Thirty years ago the town I live in was almost all conservative Republicans. We were the envy of all the other towns in the area as we had the lowest taxes and most services available. Then liberals moved in and brought their problems with them.


16 posted on 03/28/2013 5:44:06 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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To: NativeSon

The problem there is the volume of the immigrants,
their non-intent to assimilate,
and the (multi-lingual) laws that make it easier to not assimilate.

If these liberal assclowns start showing up at your local city/county council meetings demanding more services,

YOU show up and tell them that that is something that you don’t do through the government here. If you want “service X”, pay for it yourself or get a group together to privately fund it.


17 posted on 03/28/2013 5:44:36 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: cuban leaf

People in the rest of the country don’t know about the Louisville Courier Journal and the pap they sold for so many years ~ turned the Louisville SMSA into a hotbed of Commies.


18 posted on 03/28/2013 5:44:51 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: G Larry

I believe that CO will evict the ComDems in 2014. Many CO Dems are gun owners and sportsmen. They are just as angry as we are about the gun grabs.

Totalitarianism in all it’s forms is Evil. (Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Communism, Dictatorship) All Evil.


19 posted on 03/28/2013 5:45:00 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: elpadre

BINGO. This is not a good thing. New Hampshire is a textbook case of what liberal migration can do to a state.


20 posted on 03/28/2013 5:46:11 AM PDT by rbg81
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