Anyone who lived in California back in the 60’s and 70’s knows that many people moved there from other states to escape what they saw as stodgy, oppressive Nanny State laws.
California was then the wide open state where freedom from government control and domination was a big attraction
And the real irony is that native Californians, like me who enjoyed that great freedom, keep getting blamed for the nanny state we have here now which in reality was caused by those outsiders moving here and voting Democrat. Same thing is happening to Colorado.
Same thing is happening throughout the south too.
Virginia and North Carolina, once solidly conservative, have probably been irretrievably lost, Florida is close, if not already there.
And northern liberals continue to flood south as they abandon the liberal cess-pits they have created in states like New York and Massachusetts.
Once settled in as new residents in a southern state the first thing they do is begin the work of recreating the leftist hell-holes they just ran from up north.