[randita]

I could agree with your assessment, except for one fact. The producers that live in left leaning states with high taxes and a state government that spends the state into bankruptcy will move to more conservative states. That leaves the left leaning states with residents who are only takers, creating huge budget deficits, requiring huge cuts to social programs. States that pursue those policies will degenerate into the status of third world countries.

This is already happening in CA and will in Florida and Texas if they don't stop their accommodation of any immigrant that shows up on their doorsteps.

At some point in this scenario, one would hope that the citizens of those once great states will blame the leftist Democrats that created the downfall and boot them out of office, choosing conservatives to get the fiscal house in order. Then the cycle will repeat itself again.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

creating huge budget deficits, requiring huge cuts to social programs

Or they can just keep spending & ignore the deficits, as some states are doing.