Why would people who flee liberal enclaves, vote for more liberals in their new state? It does not seem logical, but then when are liberals logical?
I have a friend whose son and family moved from Minnesota to Texas. They are NOT voting for liberals - they are conservative voters.
You’ve got several types of people who make these moves.
1) Conservatives who are sick of living in a Liberal state (your friend’s son).
2) Liberals who are fleeing high taxes but have never made the connection between that and the policies they support.
3) People who follow their job to a new state when their employer decides its had enough of Liberalism (thus Rick Perry takes a lot of flak for luring people like Toyota and State Farm to the Dallas area).
4) Liberals who deliberately move to a Conservative state with a mission to turn it blue.
Three of those are people you don’t want in your Conservative state.
It's the same response you get when you remind them of the success of Venezuela (or any other socialist "paradise"): "Oh, they just didn't do socialism right, that's all."
The most unfortunate thing is those who transplant and believe they are conservative. Northeast conservatism is not conservative -- it's left-of-center liberal, just not FAR left of center. They really believe they are on the right, but when it comes time to vote for services and infrastructure, they would rather turn their new pastoral communities into urban, lit-up, over-social-engineered cities -- more like the ones they left.
They moved, but their voting habits moved with them...