Posted on 11/06/2019 10:28:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Dear LIBs: If you are thinking of moving to this conservative area...stay out. We all think you suck.
They’re headed for Galt’s Gulch,
We moved to MS from CA last May.
MS is a Free State and yesterday the Voters (including my Wife and I) made sure it is staying that way.
Dealing with the Bugs, the Summer Heat and Humidity is a small price to pay for Freedom. Today the weather is like a typical Southern CA day.
Assuming that it is primarily Republicans and conservatives who are feeling California, how can we account for states like Colorado, Nevada and Arizona starting to get a bluer tinge?
Where are they coming from? Massachusetts? Connecticut? New York? it seems as though most of the people from those states are heading to Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
That’s a good point. Look at Indiana. Remarkably, that state voted for Obama in 2008. Ten years later, the migration of productive citizens from Illinois to Indiana turned it into one of the “reddest” states in the U.S.
Where are they coming from? Massachusetts? Connecticut? New York? it seems as though most of the people from those states are heading to Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
Read the following article about the 2018 Senate election in Texas. In short, Texas-born citizens voted 51%-48% for Beto, while non-Texan-born transplants voted 57%-42% for Cruz. Those of us (like my wife and I) who left California for Texas saved that state from a certain disaster in that election.
Sadly, I think this may mean some conservatives in Texas are unfortunately raising some snowflakes.
No diversity, monochromatic
Lots of trees, mountains, hills, lakes and streams. No room for stores.
It’s really easy to buy a gun.
Prices for housing are too low.
Food is cheap.
Most of the people are patriotic. What’s worse, they’re honest.
There’s no income tax, so I don’t think the state will improve much.
Those TVA lakes are just miserable
Dolly Parton music is high art
The Smokies are just crawling with damn Yankees and tourists from Floriduh
Towns like Oak Ridge are just intellectual wastelands
color Orange is everywhere
Save yourself, stay away
I live here, and I’m an asshole
You’re describing an interesting trend. I’ve been saying for years that the single biggest factor in changing political sentiment in this country isn’t race or other demographics It’s URBANIZATION.
“Fact is for the most part, it’s not liberals bailing out of CA, but conservatives.”
But are they conservative compared to where they left or are they conservative compared to where they moved to? There can be a big difference. My father had a belief that, generally, in the northeast, the conservatives would be considered liberals in the deep south, and, generally, there were very, very few in the deep south who would even match the political philosophy of a northeast liberal. I’ve seen nothing to disprove that belief.
Now if only they’d learn WHY California has problems and not help haul us farther Left once they’re here....
Every day they are still moving out of Illinois is droves.
My fear is that the very ones who created that cesspool are the ones fleeing it to start it up again elsewhere, like a firebug running out of a burning building with his box of matches.
To be honest, and the only thing I can base this on, is all those I know who’ve bailed out of CA in the past 20 years, are further to the right than most freepers. Much further. Takes a bit of guts to rip up roots and pick up and move due to political factors etc...So there ya go.
Yup!
I’m in California and looking in East Tennessee (and other places). It sounds horrible in East Tennessee. I don’t care for country music so that may be a deal breaker, but as long as I have internet access and can stream 70s/80s rock, I’m good.
Seriously, I’m looking to leave California and want a lake in my backyard. North Carolina has some nice places as well.
And don’t come to Arizona....the scorpions are big enough to eat your small children, there are dust storms every day, and the Apaches are back on the warpath!
"They" are coming from the loins of conservatives, and in some cases from past waves of immigrants and anchor babies who are now old enough to vote. Conservative parents in red states are not taking an active enough role in the development and education of their offspring, and public education is taking over that role.
It really was a brilliant strategy by the left to take over the education and raising of children. While both parents are busy working and keeping up with the Jones's in our consumer obsessed society, teachers are shaping the minds of children throughout their formative years. But hey, check out my new toy hauler and quads!
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