The place is filling up with Californians. They vote the same way they did in the state they fled from. Works the same way in North Carolina, except the carpetbaggers are from high tax states like New Jersdey, New York and Massachusettts, . They figure to get the same public services for lower taxes, and don’t mind voting for higher taxes, just so they are less than those in the Northeast. Ditto, New Hampshire sand Maine. This is mainly the liberal” gentry”that Michael Barone is talking about.
The situation you described will continue to compount itself. We’re in CA, trying hard to get out. We won’t be choosing another blue state, which CO now is, that’s for sure. We want to get as far away from those people as we can. If that’s an example, then conservative Californians will not be coming to CO, thus not providing a counter-balance to the lefties moving there from here.