Why any freedom-loving American continues to live in CA is a mystery to me. You could not pay me enough to live there.
We have family and friends that don't seem to be as upset by the tyrannies of the "Golden State", and our desire to be near them outweighs are desire to be free from the tyrannies ourselves.
Also, when the good conservative folks left the big cities for the suburbs that was the beginning of the end. The good conservative folks made out for a while in nicer, cleaner cities with less regulation. However, the nearby cities continued to fester and become even more Democrat. Ultimately the cancer from these cesspools leaked into the suburbs and now the good conservative folks are at a loss as to what to do.
California is a cancer. If all of the good conservative folks leave then it will become even more so. And as we have 10% of the vote, our cancerous ways will be coming to a good conservative state near you.
We screwed up Colorado. We're screwing up Nevada, and even Utah for Joseph Smith's Sake!
In a few more years we'll even screw up Texas. We've already established a beachhead in Austin.
Since when was it a good military strategy to run away from the place where the battle was raging the fiercest and hunker down on the sidelines until the enemy was strong enough to eliminate all resistance?