Understood ... thanks. My wife and I are moving for a variety of reasons. The politics of the state is part of it. The economy of the state is another part. Weather is another. I guess I think of people who have no where else to go and nothing to offer once they get somewhere else when I think of refugee. My wife and I are both high-tech professionals (both working for a company you might recognize with 3 initials and called a big base color). We feel we're taking our votes and our taxes to another part of the country that might meet our lifestyle expectations.
The reason why many people who move from Mass to red states get a bad reputation is because many bring their liberal elitism with them. To be honest, there are even some conservatives who move down here and immediately start demanding the rebel flag be taken down, and that schools and buildings that are named after Civil War heroes be renamed. We all realize that not all people are like that, but there are alot of people who come down and continually talk about how racist the south is, and how great the northeast is.
Next comes the gardual change. They start making gun laws stricter, and gradually taking away personal freedoms. Pretty soon, communities throughout the South start looking like the hellholes they came from.
"fewer and fewer people want to call Massachusetts home not because of its oppressive winters but because of its oppressive and demoralizing political culture..."
Do you agree?