Posted on 04/18/2014 12:19:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The thought of the Lone Star State slowly transforming into a blue state is frightening to many native Texans, who fear that transplants will inject their cities with the very policies they initially fled from.
But not everyone buys the theory.
"Most liberals from California would rather die than come here," Chuck DeVore, Vice President of Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation told Breitbart Texas. "They perceive Texas as a Bible belt, gun toting, cowboy hat-wearing state. They think, 'If you can't surf, why would you go there?'"
DeVore should know--he used to live in California and served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010. He eventually made the move to Texas due to the lower living costs and higher quality of life.
DeVore thinks that the majority of Texas transplants are similar to him: Conservatives feeling suffocated by big cities' overwhelmingly liberal choke-hold. He said, "Migration is largely of taxpaying entrepreneurs and hardworking people who want to escape."
He pointed to a joint study by the University of Texas and Texas Tribune which confirmed that "California has been losing people in droves. The plurality of those migrants have moved to Texas, as many as 70,000 in 2011 and 60,000 in 2012." However, after polling a significant portion of the fresh transplants, the study found that 57 percent of them are self-proclaimed conservatives and only 27 percent are liberal.
"So while some may want to perceive the wave of Californians coming to Texas as part of the broader demographic trends that might eventually turn Texas purple, and then blue, the data collected to date suggest that Perry’s pitch appears to be hitting a chord with Californians who wear cowboy boots instead of Birkenstocks," the Texas Tribune concluded.
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The LEGAL Hispanic citizens who are Texans and vote, favor the Conservatives and GOP here. Many are 3rd-5th generation Texans and they do not like the influx of illegal aliens.
Granted, there are a few pockets like portions of San Antonio that elected the Castro twins as Mayor and a US Representive, in spite of the fact that their mother is a big mojo in La Raza and they all want amnesty for illegals.
White and Hispanic Texas citizens enjoy the facts that the two ethnic groups assimilated and integrated many decades ago. ...I don’t believe the illegal invaders will upset that balance. ......JMO
For Henry: Good riddance to bad rubbish. He forgot to mention the fire ants as a complaint. If Austin wasn’t up to speed for liberal Henry, he certainly wasted his sweet time getting the hell out.
I moved here from CA as a child and can’t imagine living anywhere else.
I too have been the “road warrior” having an East Texas territory along with Dallas and Houston. I find it a peaceful drive with lots of great eating stops and interesting folks.
When you miss CA, get on the plane...I kiss the TX ground arriving HOME.
Welcome to Texas!
Odd comment, since all three cities are in the same metro and share an airport.
I’m hoping to be moving to Texas next year. I will be asking Texas Freepers a lot of questions. :)
Ask away...I have no doubt you will get more information than you will need to get started.
We love our state and have many things to offer, whether it be a small town, a metropolitan area, or anything in between.
We have six distinctive regions: Mountain, Warm plains, Hill Country, Coastal, Cold Plains, Piney Woods.
Which one are you most comfortable in? What’s your heat/humidity tolerance? Are you a city or country guy?
Do you want to be in a blue or red county?
Answer those and we can tell you where to move.
Duly warned...
Mountain? Just curious. I’m from the Panhandle, Dallas, Houston area. Geographically challenged.
I’m a Red refugee from Blue Maryland, just outside the DC Beltway. It gets Hot and sticky in the summer and Cold in the winter. I’m more averse to cold than hot. I’ll be bringing a federal gov’t pension with me, along with whatever money I have left after ransoming my escape from MD. My only requirements are cable, internet, and decent pizza. I’d like to get a few acres of land to work on prepping. Red neighbors would be very nice. Single ladies good, too.
The only mountainous terrain I’ve ever seen in Texas would be in the vicinity of El Paso, far west. There are areas with decent sized hills, Hill Country. That’s the prettiest to me as an NC native. It’s dryer than here and less green, but it’s got a hint of California with the live oaks and wildflowers, so it’s very pleasant to look at, especially when the blue bonnets are blooming. The rest of Texas strikes me as a little too brown unless you’re way east or down along the coast, and then you hit the heat and high humidity that is worse than summers here, but theirs is practically year-round.
Never been to El Paso. If one is not about the humidity, I would stay away from Houston. Dallas area is not so good either. The Panhandle is really dry...Amarillo. Having lived in all of these areas, I would not want to live anywhere but Texas. Having said that, there are lots of places to choose from. You want a beach, like Basil said, go to Galveston.
Georgetown is very nice.
Research red counties and conservative enclaves in the Hill Country. Prettiest part of Texas by far in my opinion. San Antonio and Austin are the large cities. Austin is very liberal, San Antonio less so but still not exactly a conservative place. Some very nice towns of sufficient size to have good dining and entertainment options are within a decent drive down I-10 for jet service airport and other amenities typically only found in larger cities. If I were in a position to pick and choose and my destination was Texas, that’s where I’d go.
Fort Bend County is the best for conservatism.
We really have so much to choose from depending on the palate.
Been to Dallas for business quite a bit, inadvertently took a tour of Grapevine several times due to confusing construction detours around I=35 outside DFW. Grapevine seems nice, well kept old downtown section that looks prosperous, probably a popular suburb, especially with that large lake, reservoir or whatever on the other side of town. Dallas proper doesn’t do it for me, at least the parts I’ve seen, but it does have a booming economy in it’s favor and excellent connections by air.
Let us know what you are looking for. Lots of us have lived in many areas. We are happy to assist you in finding your home.
I’m pretty rooted in place in NC for now, aging parent, want to stick close by and enjoy the time we have. Not unhappy here but the local/regional economy could be better and is in much of the rest of the state.
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