Posted on 06/27/2022 6:11:27 PM PDT by bitt
As the Washington Examiner reported this week, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing to arrest the trend of people fleeing large cities in liberal coastal states for more pleasant and orderly locales, particularly in the Mountain West and the Sun Belt.
A mixture of unreasonable pandemic restrictions, rising crime, lawlessness, and hostility toward employers has forced this continued urban exodus.
A Census Bureau report released late last month shows which cities and towns have gained population and which have lost it. The data demonstrate that the states and cities that imposed the most draconian COVID-19 restrictions were very likely to lose population. But the fact is that the data are quite similar for the period between 2018 and 2019, when COVID-19 was not a consideration. What towns and cities gaining population generally have in common both before and during COVID-19 is that they generally live under laws made by Republicans. What towns and cities losing population have in common is that they generally live under Democratic rule.
It is hardly a coincidence that all 15 of the 15 fastest-growing cities and towns between July 2020 and July 2021 are in states that Republicans govern: Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Idaho. And 14 out of the 15 fastest-declining cities during the same period were in states that Democrats governed at the time.
What towns and cities gaining population generally have in common both before and during COVID-19 is that they live under laws made by Republicans. What towns and cities losing population have in common is that they live under laws made by Democrats.
Not all Democratic states and cities are equally anti-business, but COVID-19 helped bring out the totalitarian side of many state and city governments, driving away and keeping away many former and prospective residents.
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Sanity seems to prevail, somehow.
So; after reading the article is comes down to it being nothing but drivel.
Author doesn’t mention how the liberals leaving those places end up getting themselves on city councils, school boards, zoning boards, county commissions and end up destroying every place they touch.
You can go down any list where they showed up, cash in hand to buy folks out, started jacking up property taxes forcing the locals to sell to more liberals and voila, what used to be a nice small conservative town or city, becomes a liberal dump. Just a matter of time. See…Greenville, SC. And it’s now happening all coastal SC and word on the street is, Californians have pretty much bought The Battery in Charleston.
No different than locusts or the aliens in Independence Day.
Get thee behind me, liberals.
I hear a lot of them are heading to Mexico.
I don’t believe a word of it.
“Author doesn’t mention how the liberals leaving those places end up getting themselves on city councils, school boards, zoning boards, county commissions and end up destroying every place they touch.”
It happens because we allow it.
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I think it hurt my dad, a WWII vet and a lifelong Democrat, to vote for Reagan. He told me, “I didn’t move away from the Democrats. They moved away from me.” I remember political discussions in the sixties and early seventies where nobody lost friends or even got mad. They just disagreed but remained friends. That doesn’t happen today. I have lost friends over politics. In mixed groups I never respond to a political statement. If it’s directed at me and I don’t like it, I try to change the subject. Sometimes I can’t so I leave.
The Democrats of today are like some kind of Science Fiction villain. They want to sexualize your children and turn them into weird copies of the weirdest members of our society. I think a lot of Democrats are turned off by that. And, probably, those Democrats have been too afraid to voice their opinions in mixed (meaning others like themselves and the occasional “my pronoun is Ze persons) crowds.
Looks like they are going to need a bigger cemetery!
You are correct.
But money talks. Rich NYC residents were buying up homes in the NY suburbs, sight unseen. Showing up with nothing but their clothes.
Sadly, the local councils/commissions/boards do nothing to protect the locals or the original residents because they’re too effin’ greedy
They see property values go up, then tax revenue goes up, they get happy then they’re all replaced by the liberals that caused the tax increases. And then they left out in the cold wondering what happened.
I hope this is all true and continues into November.
The divide is FREE States and FEAR States!
I feel like most Republicans I have met in Idaho, and I speak of those who are lifetime Idahoans, are RINO’s who are clueless of how liberal the Republican politicians are up here.
Take Bundy, and man people around the country believe iOS hardcore Republican conservative. Well like many big farmers up here, they are like the Republicans of the “90”s and later. They are all open border Republicans because of the cheap labor for the fields.
I come up here, and start talking politics, and they think I am a former member of Atilla the Hun's hunting party.
Life time republican Idahoans are seldom conservative, Republican yes, but they are clueless about how liberal many good ole boy Republicans are running things and have been for years.
It reminds me of where California was in the “90”s, when Pete Wilson was governor. RINO’s who refused to help Bob Dornan after Loretta Sanchez used illegal voters to steal his seat.
A tactic the Democrat party perfected because the Republicans refused to defend any Republican conservative who got screwed.
Well, welcome to Idaho. They are poised to elect a Zuckerberg/Soros Republican District Attorney. He won the primary and no one cared to pay attention to who was backing him.
Idahoans have been frogs in water slowly cooking, because they figure, hell at least they are Republicans. Yet they are mostly RINOs.
No you are wrong when it at least comes to Idaho, most the newcomers coming here are a lot more conservative than those who were already here.
I guess my comment was based on what I’ve heard and read about Boise, which is definitely turning.
It’s interesting, your take on Idaho Republicans. I’m a Trump guy. One guy I know, up there, fancied himself a ‘Reagan Republican’ and didn’t have many positive ideas about Pres Trump. So, I will stand corrected.
Thanks for the info.
Liberals move to conservative areas because they absolutely hate happy productive people without a rotting culture. They will do whatever they can to destroy it.
Our problem up here is the clueless Republicans who think they are conservative, but are learning that they are not by the true conservatives moving up here.
I expect that by the Presidential election of 2024 rolls, many new conservatives will be voting to replace many old time RINOs in the primary as we true conservatives make our presence known to those who are clueless.
Consider this, as I said it could be unique to Idaho, but only a person who is really tired of liberals would move to tho GOD forsaken hell hole. Sorry, but I do not have a high opinion of the landscape. I guess we could move up North, but who wants to deal with 5 billion feet of snow every winter?
Again. I’ll happily stand corrected.
I received a response on here a while back. Similar thread. The comment stated that many move up there and/or Montana. They want that mountain life. Clean air.
Then winter comes. By spring most of them have For Sale signs in their yards.
I hope that’s true. And may they stay there.
The failed state of Democrat-controlled California, the insane politics there, and the absolutely insane supporters of every evil liberal thing possible are what drove us to buy in North Idaho at the beginning of 2018. We saw the political handwriting on the wall at the time and knew North Idaho was going to boom with political refugees. We were right.
We did keep the California house as a winter refuge, but my wife doesn’t ever want to set foot in CA again. She’s had it with the place.
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