That this would be happening in a state that WAS once very conservative, is of little surprise, since most of the growth that came to Phoenix was from DEMOCRATS moving away from the fiscal mess THEY created with their votes in CA!
Take a look at the property I posted just prior. It is instructive in that the new building has no windows to the South to allow sound to escape the building - and apparently the same to the North from prior pictures.
This needs to be litigated, laws changed, and freedom restored.
There’s are some grounds for arguing the effects of White Flight, along the lines you have. Your area seems more Leftist. I would still submit that most of the folks who did flee Southern California, were home owner worker bees rather than folks benefiting from state largess. We’ve also seen a lot of businesses relocated outside the state. Non-union workers are more likely to be at least independents rather than avowed Leftists.
What saddens me, is the populace that once could support a man like Reagan, is now unable to find the brain cells needed to repel an idiot like Jerry Brown.
If you look at the numbers of Californians who have left, you’ll note that it pretty much mirrors the amount we are now losing in-state elections by.
California now has somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 million residents. If it had even 5 million middle class whites in the traditional areas they used to live in, you’d see California right itself in five to ten years.