— happy ending of a parable —
Let us hope..
FrankR makes a good point up there.. Rats flee a sinking ship and bring their undesirable traits and prerogatives with them. So the stage is set for some future tussle.
The cool part is we get to watch the remaining leftists drain these haughty, formerly prosperous, places of every last cent till they collapse in a heap.
Oldexpat's comment on regulation as a means to control emigration is a concern also. The south and the middle south is heavily reliant on coal power. My understanding is that Obama intended to punish coal power plants, and by extension the end users, but has been undermined.. In part by his own party, who presumably see a train wreck coming.