It’s called “Marxism”.
Karl Marx HATED the middle class. He wanted their blood flowing the streets.
So the middle class is moving out of these Marxist areas to places where capitalism still lives.
And once those middle classers get there, the vote for liberal Marxists thereby compounding the problem....
Liberals no! Stay in the state your ruined!
In the movie White Christmas, Davis (Danny Kaye) tells Wallace (Bing Crosby) that “it would be easier to find a Democrat [in Vermont]” than to find a song & dance team like themselves. Now you can’t find a Republican in Vermont — think Howard Dean as its governor.
And that’s the problem: leftist crap weasels ruin the states in which they live with unbearable taxes, government spending, and regulations, and then move on to free states to repeat the process.
Yeah, but the problem also is the trash leftists all move in these days and start to turn everything into California.
Not a joke...
“Why are Americans by and large moving away from economic opportunity rather than toward it?” he asks.
Because they are seeing tax slavery for what it is. In NJ you can own a very average home free & clear, and pay $600+ per month in property taxes for the privilege of living here (mostly for the public schools, which are not good). When your GRANDchildren are no loger in the schools, the state will freeze your property taxes - at $600+ per month. One of our former governors admitted that without illegal immigration, we lost population (and we lost an electoral vote to confirm that). The illegals are immediately on the dole, and the dwindling number of taxpayers get the bill. Since Americans don’t have families anymore, why would one live in an area where you pay so much for others’ kids?
The author mentions “low-skill immigrants”; here in NJ most are illegal, and they contribute nothing. If anyone thought they would save Social Security, note the smallest increase in years at a time when we’ve never had more illegals in this country; they know they are imported to pay for retired Americans, and they ain’t playing ball (while they continue to breed a next generation that Americans won’t).
It’s not all about money. Many of us have moved to states with less regulation.
Moreover, Noah’s use of per capita incomes is misleading, since children typically have no income and many in the Northeast and coastal California are childless. If you look at household incomes, these states are far closer to the national average.
That’s how we ended up with Graham here in SC. All the liberals up north flocked to SC to escape the liberal taxes they voted for and now they vote for people who share their liberalism.
Alternate Title: “Liberals Flee the Hellholes They Created to Invade Other States and Screw Them Up, Too!!!”