For the first time, six fast-growing states in the South — Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee — are contributing more to the national GDP than the Northeast
No this is not the first time. People often don't realize - and it is usually omitted from the History books - but the Southeast was by far the richest region of the country in the early years of the Republic. It paid most of the taxes and the Northeast got most of the government largesse for at least the first 100 years of the Republic.
“We now have more employees in Texas than New York state. It shouldn’t have been that way,” JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon said to Bloomberg TV on a swing through the South earlier this year.
Why not? Texas is bigger than New York. Its also been growing far faster economically for decades and decades. It also has much lower taxes. So why shouldn't your bank have been growing faster and employing more people there?
What happened in Colorado is very likely to happen in the new growth states of Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.,/p>
I understand the sentiment and share in the disgust at what happened to Colorado (they could have included Virginia as well). That said, a majority of the people leaving places like California and New York and other blue states in recent years have been Leftugees. Far from colonizing and turning red states blue, they have turned purple states back to red and/or staved off blue takeovers of other states. They have been the exact opposite of earlier waves of immigrants from blue states. They are very unlikely to push for gun control in red states. In fact, we on the gun rights side of the argument have been steadily winning in recent years. Look at the spread of constitutional carry into now 26 states. Look at NC's repeal of its Jim Crow era pistol purchase permit law.
This claim gets make frequently around here, mainly because hopium addicts would dearly love for it to be true. It sure would be great if there was some concrete proof of that statement however, and not just anecdotal BS such as "muh new neighbors from Callyfornia...". Lots of stats exist regarding migrants from state to state or even within states; but where is the data that shows them making anything "redder"?
Especially when the exact opposite seems to be the case. Ask the good folks in Colorado, Georgia, Arizona, New Hampshire, Nevada and so on, and so on. If you want to go back far enough, add Washington and Oregon to the list. If you're looking to the future, add Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Montana, Idaho and more. All they REALLY need is Texas, and we're cooked.
If a place is nice -- for now -- it will be invaded by those who bring their pathologies with them and make the nice place bad. Once it goes bad, it's damn near impossible for it to somehow become good again.
The good people merely flee even farther out, create new good places, which eventually get invaded.... and the cycle goes on forever, until the good people finally have nowhere to run. Hopefully it will be many, many years before that happens in this country.