Posted on 12/21/2020 11:19:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Eureka! We found that gold you hear about in California. And it just left.
California lost so many people in the last decade that when the census numbers are all tabulated, it could lose a congressional seat. Even the state’s Rose Bowl game just left for Texas.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the California Department of Finance says the state grew by only 21,200 residents in the past year, the lowest since 1900.
“This is a real sea change in California, which used to be this state of pretty robust population growth,” said Hans Johnson, a demographer at the Public Policy Institute of California. “It hasn’t been for some time now. But it’s now gotten to the point where the state is essentially not growing population-wise at all.”
[…] If the trends continue statewide and California’s population decreases, one of the most immediate effects could be the loss of a seat in Congress, Johnson said.
A Facebook group for people fleeing California that I’ve been monitoring for months is teeming with tales of getting the heck out of the Golden State. They don’t want to leave, but Leftist politics, remote work, fires, high energy prices, and high taxes force their hand.
They post photos of the homeless camps, rates for moving vans, give tips on where you can get a coveted 26′ truck from UHaul, ask for help in finding the most conservative cities in America to move to. They call on fleeing Californians to respect the beliefs of the state they’re moving to. Another person posts a parody article saying Texas has issued a stay-at-home order for Californians. A woman posts a receipt from a San Francisco parking garage to explain how the city is bleeding her dry.
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Dictator Gavin kills the Rose Bowl,
moron CA voters good with that.
How many did New York lose? Five? Six?
TEXAFORNIA is ths new state.
Total agreement here. All the liberal a-h*les that caused the demise of California came from outside the state. Meaning, American liberals from states back east. California was a conservative state until the mid-1960s when the likes of Willie Brown (from Texas) and Nancy Pelosi (from Baltimore) flooded in and ruined it all. Even San Francisco had an unbroken string of Republican mayors for most of the 20th Century up until the mid-1960s.
I was born and raised here, but most of the people I ask about their origins came from somewhere else.
If we didn’t count illegal aliens, we could lose 10 or more
seats.
A reason that the wealthy are leaving California - high taxes and living expenses. Two new bills proposed seek a 0.4% wealth tax and a 16.8% state income tax rate. Imagine being forced to pay a wealth tax on your accumulated net worth, besides a state tax on your annual earnings. Now imagine that if you move to another state, you get to keep your money.
Even illegals don't want to live in the same sh*tholes they escaped from. Would you?
There is nothing like “always vote” in politics.
The south used to always vote Democrat too.
Who are they voting for now?
They’ll just have Dominion recount them a couple.
If they didn’t count illegals they would lose 5 congressional seats.
Where they counted in California before they fled?
You make a good point, how much of the people fleeing California are the life’s blood of industry and how many are blood suckers that will drag other states into economy/political hell?
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