Posted on 11/04/2004 5:37:45 PM PST by BurbankKarl
It means that people in the high-tax, high-rent blue states have figured out they'd rather live in the red states, and are finding their values are more conservatives.
Also, pretty much every city is being run like a welfare state: each city has its own super-luxurious health and fitness complex, open spaces, bike paths, etc. all paid for through property taxes. This may be OK, but it certainly doesn't follow the independent mentality that Colorado used to be famous for.
Or, Austin, Texas, which is also near a big lake which Californians would just love...
I lived in Chicago on that same lake. I've been to Traverse City and Austin. Let the Dems go to either!
I was worried that so many liberals may have moved to Phoenix and Las Vegas that it would turn both states demonrat.
A great many of those leaving are Republicans for obvious
reasons.
They just wouldn't like it here, I'm afraid.
I can not wait to move out of the People's Republic of California. I would really prefer to be surounded by the good old boys of a Red state. I have had it up to my ears with the efete, intellectual cocaine sniffers of the SF Bay Area.
I read recently that home values in San Fran are rocketing down, and that the trend would pick up all over Cali.
Nevada is a red state that will probably be blue by 2008 due to the massive influx of people from California.
We are out of ammo. Send money now...
I was thinking that myself right after I posted - fingers working faster than brain sometimes!!
California....the state that eats its most productive citizens and feeds the remains to its least productive inhabitants...most of whom are not even US citizens...
I really hate what illegal immigration has done to my City (used to be small town). There are places here now that actually look just like Mexico. My husband is retiring soon and we are leaving. I say let em have California.
On Wednesday Tom Sullivan, local radio talk show host and sometimes fill-in for Rush, explained why San Francisco people are so out of touch with the rest of America. While the President has raised the home ownership rate in the U.S. to 70%+, the home ownership rate in SFO is only around 35%. If you aren't responsible for property, YOU AREN'T RESPONSIBLE!
And all the left caqn think to do is raise taxes. What a bunch of pathetic morons.
I'll wager a disproportionate number of them are heading for Austin, TX, which has virtually become the San Francisco of TX. Crap. I wish Texans would buy up billboard ads on the Interstates, hiways and byways in AZ and NM, telling the Californicators to take that left turn at Albuquerque! (As a Texan, I'd contribute to the cause.)
You wouldn't like Washington then. Blue state, coke heads, crack heads, queers all over the place, RAINS ALL THE TIME, everything gets moldy - even the family dog, really a horrible, miserable place. Try someplace sunny, like Arizona or something.
Actually, I think the reason the President won in many western states is because so many Conservatives are leaving CA to move to NV, AZ, NM, CO, etc.
My next door neighbor moved here (Oklahoma) from California recently. He and 14 other members of his family all left CA at the same time. Religious, political and economic climate was horrible, they said. 15 people (4 families) moved!!!
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