“The only solution that makes sense for conservatives living in these places is to get out”
Exactly correct. I live in Wisconsin which teeters on the edge between blue and red. When inner city milwaukee is motivated enough to bother to vote based on race (and the dems bus in unregistered voters from outside Wisconsin) then the state goes blue. When we have white guys running for state offices, the state can go red. We currently have a GOP governor and legislature. Our fate hinges on the city voters - fraudulent or real. I intend to move to a solidly red state in the near future as a tactical retreat. I cannot imagine living in NY. I will not enter that state or even fly through a NY airport. I never knowingly buy anything that originated in NY.
These 2012 election result maps clearly show the problem. Red and blue statewide results are actually determined by the huge blue spikes located at each city.
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/WebGL/Election2012f.html
It adds about an hour to our 800-mile trip to visit my parents to minimize the time spent in New York, but I’m with you, I think - it’s worth it to avoid a bankrupting prosecution by corrupt cops over some piece of Albany BS we might not even know about.
“I intend to move to a solidly red state in the near future as a tactical retreat…”
That’s a great concept, I’ve not heard it expressed that way yet, but as I consider it, that is exactly what “the course ahead” must be for conservatism in North America.
Conservatives — particularly those who choose to remain in the “blue states” — must know and accept that they are living “in enemy territory” that, short of a complete collapse (of the economy and of the federal government), will not change “rightward” on its own.
Indeed, the blue states are going to march “forward” towards the totalitarian state at increasing speed.
There will be no “conservative revival” in the United States, at least not in the entirety of the country. Perhaps, for the near-term future, there can be a “preservation and conservation” (for lack of better terms) of conservative and “traditional” American/Western core values and principles in the remaining red states.
There are reasons why conservatives choose to live in the blue states — career, family ties, personal history, etc. I live in such a place myself (for now). But I fully realize that to remain here is to submit to the governance of the left. And I understand that if I want to be free of such bonds, my only realistic choice is to emigrate to somewhere where the attitudes are congruent to mine.
The only choice — as you have said so well — is to make “a tactical retreat”….