Posted on 01/12/2022 6:20:50 AM PST by Kaslin
This week, the incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams -- the supposed rational corrective to uber-radical outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio -- announced that he would allow legislation to proceed allowing local voting for 800,000 noncitizens. The same week, the legislature in California took up a bill that would establish single-payer health care in the state, paying for the increase in costs by essentially doubling taxes.
Americans have been fleeing the most liberal states in mass numbers. Those numbers are about to increase even more.
Between July 2020 and July 2021, approximately 352,198 residents of New York State embarked for warmer climes. Over that same period, the District of Columbia lost 2.9% of its population. California lost 367,299 people via net domestic migration. Illinois, another failing blue state, saw a net domestic out-migration of 122,460 people.
Where did all these blue state refugees go? To red states, of course. Texas picked up 170,307 Americans migrating from other areas. Florida picked up 220,890 people. Arizona picked up 93,026. Idaho had the fastest annual population increase in the nation.
The only region of the country to gain population was the South, which now holds 38.3% of the total population of the country -- and which picked up 657,682 Americans migrating from different areas. The Northeast is now the least populous region in the United States, and saw a net population decrease of 365,795 residents. All net increase in population in the West was due to births and international migration, not domestic moves.
It's not just individuals -- it's companies. Facebook's parent company, Meta, just signed the largest-ever lease in downtown Austin for floors 34 through 66 of the tallest tower in the city. Elon Musk has relocated his company headquarters to Texas. My own Daily Wire relocated in 2020 from California to Nashville, Tennessee.
In other words, red state governance is a magnet; blue state governance is a disaster. Yet blue states cannot change course. They cannot simply jettison their adherence to failed ideas like single-payer health care or voting for illegal immigrants. To do so would be to acknowledge error. And so instead, they are banking on unearned moral superiority -- virtue signaling -- to fill the gap where good governance should be. Thus, red states are grandma-killing hellholes (where blue state legislators vacation); red states are brutal suppressors of voting rights (where Stacey Abrams wants to run for governor again); red states are filled with vicious dog-eat-dog trickle-down capitalists (who must be taxed to pay for national spending programs).
None of this is bound to convince Americans to vote Democrat. It's not designed to do so. Democrats have banked on a consistent electoral strategy since former President Barack Obama's 2012 victory -- the strategy of driving out a base comprised of minority voters and college-educated women. But that strategy is collapsing -- as Ruy Texiera, once the nation's leading proponent of that strategy, admitted in November, "if Hispanic voting trends continue to move steadily against the Democrats, the pro-Democratic effect of nonwhite population growth will be blunted, if not cancelled out entirely, and that very influential Democratic theory of the case falls apart."
It's falling apart in real time. But Democrats can't pull out of the tailspin. They're too invested in the lie that their programs are popular to notice how many Americans are calling up U-Haul.
Keep those who vote Dem in the blue states.
That should be the requirement for entering a red state.
I propose a ten day waiting period for new voters. That’s ten *election days*.
With big businesses and the wealthy fleeing the state, the idiots in the state house will lower the new tax threshold to include anyone with a job or bank account.
Your money is thiers, after all.
This may be what drives me out of the state.
Dear Sweet Jesus, don’t let them come here and turn it into the sewage runoff they left. Amen
Speaking of Uhaul, 5 times as many trucks are rented for moving out of California than into it. And the rental price reflects that.
Only if elections matter. And I don't think they do. The governments can do what they want to do, and We The People don't have a say.
The “great reset” simply reflects the reality that a reasonable consensus of commonly held values no longer exists. Such a consensus is the foundation of a unified country. Is it so unusual that decent ,rational people, given the choice and opportunity, would not want to live, work, raise a family or send their kids to school in bizarre Democratic/socialist run urban areas. Nor would they want to live with the people there. Those governments reflect the values and preferences of a majority of the local population. They did not come to exist in a political, cultural or social vacuum. Sorry but elections matter and it matters even more when people vote with their feet. It tells the real story.
“”announced that he would allow legislation to proceed allowing local voting for 800,000 noncitizens.””
This guy tanked his career pretty fast after election, didn’t he?
What does the city have to do with legislation that happens in Albany? City Councils can pass anything they want to but is that called “legislation?”
California liberals tried to enact an “exit tax”, where people who left the state would still be liable for California taxes. Maybe New York will try the same.
https://moskowitzllp.com/californias-exit-tax-explained/
You don't have to vote to be a Socialist , or a progressive,..
but they will tax you into compliance !
At what point did "we the people" become Serfs and Proles to the State ?.. and the State "owns us" ?
Do they own us, like the slavery of olde, prior to the Civil War ?
Change voting to county. Whoever wins the most counties in the state wins the electoral votes. This way, if the Dems want to cheat, the firewall is at the county level. Or do it by congressional district. Most districts won get the electoral votes. If Cook county has 20 million votes, it’s only one county in the state.
Yep. We here in Dixie will gladly accept Conservative Patriots and libertarians. The Leftist statists, Marxists, Race Hustlers.....they should be required to stay and live in the Blue chitholes they have created. Like stubborn puppies, they simply will not learn anything until you rub their noses in their own chit.
The value of my sister’s house in Boise has gone up 75% in just 3 years
They’re hanging on to it for a while longer as a good investment, but moving to Florida this month
If I don’t get out of here soon, there won’t be anything left for an “exit tax” - the pols in California have been on that one for decades.
One poster here said he went to Arizona, drove a U-Haul back to California to move out of state, returned the U-Haul in his new state and saved himself $500.
The ONLY U-Haul we could rent when my son needed to move had a broken front headlight and the flashers went off and on at will - we took it anyway b/c there was nothing else - and we were lucky to get that one, we just made sure to return it before dark.
I’ll still vote but I agree with you 💯. Trump won but was denied his second term by our NWO/Globalist overlords. Scary stuff that I never thought I would see in my almost 70 years here in the USA.
All well and good. But the (now firmly, IMO) embedded economy-wide inflation inflicted by the great money flush of 2020 will be the great equalizer, spatter higher prices on everyone, and potentially renew calls for universal welfare, etc.
I really like the County concept.
I want the people to choose representatives.
I want counties to choose the president.
I want state legislatures to appoint senators.
When I moved from Seattle to Idaho last year I rented a U Haul 26’ truck, towed my car on a dolly, drove the truck back to Seattle, drove the van I left in Seattle back to Idaho and saved over $1000 compared to a one way truck rental.
“Keep those who vote Dem in the blue states.”
Eliminating welfare in the red states will do the trick.
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