Posted on 04/20/2006 1:59:51 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
This is news? It's only been going on for about 50 years or so.
I am seen the same up here in Canada. In the Toronto area, for instance, you have to travel up to around Barrie - 60 miles away from downtown - to really get into conservatism...
It's accelerating now.
The schools are night and day. So much more parent involvement out here. Wright county, I think, is the most Republican county in MN. God's country!
Beautiful yard--mind my asking where it is?
Nice spread you have there. Count me as envious. ;)
You mean like when they move to a farming community and then demand that the farmers not use manure on their fields because they don't like the smell?
BINGO!
This trend has only been going on for about 60 years.
The problem with many fleeing big cities to the rural areas is that they recognize, via their pocketbook, that they cannot live comfortably amongst liberalism (unsustainable)but still adhere to liberalism philosophically. They move to more conservative locals and immediately want to make it like the places they left. In fact, they quickly communicate with their liberal support systems and initiate liberal political processes, much to the dismay of locals who have openly invited them to share their lifestyles as good neighbors should. Before you know it, taxes are increased, private property is in danger, liberal organisations dominate the news, organized neighborhood organisations (dominated by politically savy liberals) have rights local individual citizens are denied and life becomes like the hell the liberals left.
See Post 6!
You phrased it much than I did though!
I just moved from Miami to Ocala, FL and feel like I moved back to America! Problem is, a lot of Northeasterners are moving down here as well. Ocala is growing quickly and jobs are plentiful.
How will the drive be when gasoline is $5 a gallon? Somewhere there is a tradeoff between housing and transportation.
Area / 2000-04 annual rate per 1000 / average annual number
San Francisco-Oakland-Freemont / -14.7 / -60,984
New York-Norther New Jersey-Long Island / -11.4 / -211,014
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy / -9.5 / -41,851
Los Angles-Long Beach-Santa Ana / -9.3 / -177,780
Not exactly the conservative hot beds. These are significant because the represent regional declines, not just people moving to the suburbs which is common in most major cities.
What kind of jobs are plentiful in Ocala? Check-out at the Publix?
I traded my view of Puget Sound for a view of Lake Ray Hubbard. The people, politics, and climate are all a 100% improvement.
Thanks. We must have crossed message at the same time. Mine needs to go another 3,000 miles...
We make the same points. I see it and live it every day. The libs from California and the Northwest are like a flush of bad weeds flourishing in fertile soil with no natural defenses.
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