They are probably in shock right now, but soon enough they
will convince themselves that they will be able to do it better
than Obama did.
Posted on 11/05/2014 8:19:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
NOTE: THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE NOV. 4, 2014 MIDTERM ELECTIONS....
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If you do not currently live in a red state, you probably will soon. Either you will (1) flee your blue state to a red one, or (2) you and your fellow blue-state citizens will get so fed up with the high taxes and fiscal irresponsibility that you will vote out the blue-state politicians and replace them with red-staters.
U.S. Census data confirms that voters are leaving blue states for red ones. The top 10 destinations are North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, North Dakota and Washington. Only one is a deep blue state, Washington.
The states people are fleeing: Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico and California. Of those the only red state is Kansas.
As for the second point, just consider how many states have started making that shift to red-state politicians—or will start on Nov. 4.
There’s only 13 or 14 deep blue states: California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Mexico and Hawaii. New Jersey and New Mexico both have very popular Republican governors. It looks like Massachusetts will elect a Republican governor, and it’s possible in Hawaii.
And the fed-up citizens of the worst fiscally run state in the country, Illinois—the president’s home state and the one that has most embraced his governing philosophy—may also wake up Nov. 5 with Republican governor.
Blue-leaning Michigan and Wisconsin elected Republican governors in 2010, and they may be back for round two. Maine and Pennsylvania are more questionable.
And it’s not just individuals, business owners are also considering their options. The Tax Foundation recently released its “2015 State Business Tax Climate Index.” It found the 10 best states are Wyoming, South Dakota, Nevada, Alaska, Florida, Montana, New Hampshire, Indiana, Utah and Texas. All of them except New Hampshire are red or red leaning. Eight of the 10 have Republican governors.
The 10 worst states are Iowa, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, Minnesota, California, New York and New Jersey. Eight are blue or blue leaning, Ohio and Iowa are purple, and six of the 10 are run by Democrats.
Are you detecting a pattern?
Now, turning a blue or purple state red doesn’t necessarily mean electing Republicans, though that’s the usual pattern. I’m referring more to a governing philosophy. Democrats who call for lower taxes and smaller government—and then actually govern that way—are essentially embracing the red-state philosophy.
There is one problem, however. As the New York Times recently pointed out, some Americans fleeing their blue states for a red one haven’t abandoned their blue-state philosophy, and so they vote for politicians who espouse the very policies that drove them from their last state.
I have long thought that the reason Virginia has turned from red to purple is that liberal Marylanders fed up with that state moved to northern Virginia for the better tax and business climate—and then still vote blue.
Voters around the country are concluding “it’s better to be red than dead”—applying a whole new, and much better, meaning to an old phrase. That pattern will continue on Nov. 4.
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Merrill Matthews is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy think tank in Dallas, Texas
California is a lost cause right now.
Californians are sort of like Mexicans:
They’re proud and vocal, but flee.
Then they seek to re-create the conditions that drove them away in the first place.
The Clinton’s have been strangely silent about the Democrat disaster.
I hope this is true, but I don’t see it here in the Great State of ‘Eastern California’ (Otherwise known as New Mexico).
There’s probably a large contingent of DEMs who believe the sooner Obama is gone, the sooner Hillary will be POTUS.
Just once, just once before I die, I’d love to see MN go red. But, my state just re-elected Stuart Smalley. So, prob not too much hope of that ever happening...
Come to think if it, that’s what muslims do too. Come here and try to recreate the third world sh*thole they fled from.
CC
re: Californians are sort of like Mexicans: They’re proud and vocal, but flee. Then they seek to re-create the conditions that drove them away in the first place.
A lot of us in Nevada can testify to that!
They are probably in shock right now, but soon enough they
will convince themselves that they will be able to do it better
than Obama did.
It would be great if you were correct and included Hawaii in the mix. Here in the bluest of blue states The Peoples Republic of Hawaii, we have a one party state ruled mainly by second and third generation Japanese from the sugar plantations, along with many unions. But then they have told us that the most efficient method of governing the ‘teeming masses’ is by a one party system of government. Their proof ?......Cuba, Russia, N. Korea, Viet Nam, China.
Good article. 2016 is the conservatives to lose. We’d better unite behind whatever conservative is leading after the first few states. Every other conservative needs to drop out. Paul, Bush, Christie, Rubio, Romney are guys I will not vote for, ever, so we’d better make sure someone else wins The nom.
Illinois turned a bit purple yesterday by electing a Republican governor, and if we could get rid of Chicago the state would be as red as Texas.
Soon it may just be California and New York.
I think your statement is overly broad. Admittedly, some of our liberals (who came here from the NE States originally), have left to $hit in some other state’s nests (Can you say Colorado). But also a lot of the hard-working folks are leaving as well ( and a lot of them have ended up in places like Utah and Texas, states that are not welcoming for welfare recipients). To have that kind of mobility, you need to be earning a living, and when your “living” is being “earned” elsewhere, California suffers as a result. And that’s a very good thing. The RATs here count on the productive to fuel their spending. As the income-earning folks leave (the welfare trash won’t leave because our benes are too good at the moment), it makes the RATs game all the more difficult. I am not saying that things here will turn around over night, but I am betting that they will eventually have to turn around because all the “golden geese” have left.
Calling Maryland - and undoubtedly a few other states - deep blue may be a bit of an overstatement.
MD is deep blue that is a mile wide and an inch deep.
While there are many areas solidly Dem, many are not. This is why “secession” keeps coming up, especially lately. Lots of “disenfranchised” people here, because of the predictably 90% Dem Baltimore, e.g.
New Mexico has 2 problems:
1: its small enough that its easily swayed by the votes of liberal transplants from the east and California.
2: its got a majority hispanic population many of whom are really quite racist against whites.
There isent so much new mexico can do about #1 but #2 can be matched by blending in with Hispanic canadits.
Many are exactly like Mexicans, in fact...they ARE Mexicans.
I submit Wisconsin is in fact red. R gov and attorney general, 5 of 8 congressmen R. 1 D, 1 R us senator. State assembly of 99, 68 are R, State Senator 19 of 33 are R
Making Larry Hogan governor of Maryland is going to put much of a dent in Maryland’s blue state status.
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