I’ll call you on that. How many people stay in cities for the urban public educations their kids can get? Yeah, they move out for $$$, but the urban schools rotted from liberal policies. Liberalism is expensive, they don’t get value for their dollar. I can’t stand paying school taxes to districts I know is being pissed away by libs, and virtually every major city is run by them. I know tons of white liberals who run to one of the most conservative districts in Texas. They come here for schools . . . and safety. My post was about the general rule, there of course are exceptions out of millions in the populations. But don’t kid yourself that population trends aren’t politically motivated. It’s been going on for too long in too many places for it to be mere coincidence.
Those of us who have lived in Chicago for many years know where the good schools are and many send their kids to private schools. The Catholic system is huge. Most of the suburban schools are no less liberal than the city and many are far worse in that regard.
But when these folks leave and find out that their property taxes are much higher than in the city they get a very unpleasant surprise. But the teachers are paid much more in those systems than in the city so it is going to come out of the taxpayer.
While what you say about Texas may be true but I have seen this going on too long to believe that there is much of political motivation in it. It is primarily economic and actually is based primarily on the lower price of land in the outer rings around cities. Other things get factored into the decision and a political one could tip the scales but I never met many libs who wanted to move to a conservative area if they had ANY viable option.