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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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beststates; freedom; freestates; migration; obama; redstates; trends
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To: muawiyah

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.


I still love the Highlands. I call it our little piece of Seattle. ;-)


21 posted on 03/28/2013 5:48:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: rbg81

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


I was in Concord once and the locals talked about that. Apparently they flee Mass., but then try to reproduce it there.


22 posted on 03/28/2013 5:49:26 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

I just returned to the former good ol US of A Tues from Colombia and Im already sick of liberal scum/gutter whore registered Democrats!

Today Im going shopping for new TOYs and ammo!


23 posted on 03/28/2013 5:49:47 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: elpadre
look closely - the libs are invading and infiltrating the red states and causing serious infections.

RELOCATION DIARY

Week 1 - "It's so good to be away from those high taxes and Nanny State politicians"

Week 5 - "The sun is nice but I sure miss our subsidized mass transit."

Week 10 - "This isn't they way we do it back home"

Week 20 - "Why are my welfare payments lower here?"

Week 30 - "You mean you allow people to own dangerous guns in this state?

Week 40 - "What a place - Truck Pulls but no Opera!"

Week 50 - "I can't wait until November to vote these hicks out of office so we can raise taxes and get more government services."


24 posted on 03/28/2013 5:50:13 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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To: Texas Fossil

I’m urging our GOP leaders to wait for 2014 for the ballot measure to overturn recent anti-gun legislation.

Waisting that kind of voter motivation in a special 2013 election would be a tragedy.


25 posted on 03/28/2013 5:51:23 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Biggirl

perhaps they should all be assigned to an “orientation” session on the constitution, i.e. conservatism.


26 posted on 03/28/2013 5:52:15 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: IBD editorial writer
I'm going to urge my son to head south or west when it's time to make a decision.
27 posted on 03/28/2013 5:52:42 AM PDT by McGruff (You are either with us or you are with the RINOs.)
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To: cuban leaf

years ago when I lived in Western KY, in local elections they where strong democrat but in federal election went overwhelming for the republicans


28 posted on 03/28/2013 5:57:28 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: tbw2

I hope you took the opportunity to point that out to her.

If you haven’t, you really should do so.


29 posted on 03/28/2013 6:05:17 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Trouble is they are bringing their liberalism with them...


30 posted on 03/28/2013 6:06:57 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: elpadre

years ago when I lived in Western KY, in local elections they where strong democrat but in federal election went overwhelming for the republicans


I’d heard about a certain phenomenon but am now experiencing it. In this area, democrat doesn’t necessarily mean liberal, just as in the northeast, republican doesn’t necessarily mean conservative.


31 posted on 03/28/2013 6:07:47 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: SampleMan

May have to bring back the “tar, feather, and run them out of town” tradition.


32 posted on 03/28/2013 6:09:21 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: IBD editorial writer

And they will demand more and more services from the state, and push it to the left.


33 posted on 03/28/2013 6:11:24 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: G Larry
Colorado will evict the liberals in 2014.

I sure hope, so. I'm thinking of moving there

34 posted on 03/28/2013 6:20:57 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: IBD editorial writer

Liberals are like locusts that migrate to greener pastures after ravishing the land they just came from.


35 posted on 03/28/2013 6:30:13 AM PDT by MNDude (I survived the sequester!)
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To: SampleMan
Sadly, they are bringing their socialist voting habits with them.

That's not why states turn liberal. What happens is the more people that move into a place, the denser the population in that place.

The denser the population, the more competition for resources and the greater the chance people will interfere with each other.

Hence as population density grows, the potential for human conflict grows.

And so there is an increase in the number of laws to govern behavior that leads to conflict.

36 posted on 03/28/2013 6:32:50 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: cuban leaf

A lot of immigrants do that (especially Muslim ones). They flee the Hell holes they lived in and, after they feel safe, get all nostalgic and homesick for the abuse.


37 posted on 03/28/2013 6:35:31 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: SampleMan

This is exactly what has happened to NH and NC over the last 20 years. They have turned from solid red states to blue or purple.

When I moved to NH in 1985, it was an old time Yankee conservative state. The problem is not so much the Massh@les that move here and work here or MA. The problem is the retirees from all the other midatlantic and northeastern states. The come here and then complain that the property tax is too high on their expensive lake house. “We should have an income tax. We are on a fixed income, wah, wah, wah. Our town should provide more services. Why should we have to pay for a new roof for the high school, we do not even have kids in the system.”


38 posted on 03/28/2013 6:47:21 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: G Larry

This is going to take huge and constant pressure to turn the tide in the media. The ComDems must own/wear this gun grab.

Unfortunately whimps like Lindsey the Light and John the Lame are no better than some of the ComDems.

The POLs will not fix this, they are just in CYA mode. The only way this is fixed is that they know there are swift consequences for them.

Look at the shelves in the stores that sell firearms and ammo. It is nationwide, not regional. Media ignores it, but this will NOT GO AWAY.


39 posted on 03/28/2013 7:09:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: IBD editorial writer

Yeah, they’ve already infected Tulsa. Note to fags: Oklahoma is closed.


40 posted on 03/28/2013 7:21:51 AM PDT by LouAvul
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