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 Perrys pitch appears to be hitting a chord with Californians who wear cowboy boots instead of Birkenstocks," the Texas Tribune concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Now that would be a twist. Next, we should cut welfare payments in TX so those who want to ride in the wagon will move to those generous northeastern states.
This makes since not like the retired Rats up north moving south but how do you explain Colorado .over run by Californians
Liberals are like roaches. They destroy their home with bad policies, then move to fresh territory and repeat the process.
To cold up there
Got a Hawaiian shirt wearing alternative med practitioner here. Came in from California
He’s very conservative He can talk voting trends, media trends, econocxs and American history.
I am a Calfornia expat now in Dallas.
I like it here — the people are great and the politics make sense. It also is centrally located which is ideal for a Road Warrior like me (I have gotten a lot of my life back).
I miss Los Angeles from time to time, mostly for weather, the beach and things to do.
But I a am on the road most of the time anyway.
My first vote as a citizen here was for Cruz so I feel really good about that.
If Texas had waves I’d be there too.
I couldn’t live anywhere outside of the Eastern Time Zone.But if I ever leave this state...a greater and greater possibility with each passing day...my destination will be a state that’s more “red” then the Gay State.North Carolina,eastern Tennessee,even Georgia (although I hate heat and humidity).And wherever I go I won’t be voting for Rats.Ever.
Interesting. Now we have actual studies that proving southern freepers theories that "liberal yankee translants" made their states elect marxist RATs are wrong. Personally I'd say the illegal aliens, inner-city populations, and welfare leeches in states like Virginia are voting RAT a lot more than the "yankee transplants" do.
I'd still love to test their theory about "sending the liberal yankees back home" though, and agree to have our states take back our retired voters now living in Florida and Arizona, and in exchange they can have back all their southern transplants now living here (which they claim don't exist anyway because "no born and bred southerner would ever move to a yankee state") like Jesse Jackson, Bobby Rush, Danny Davis, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, etc.
Bottom line: I think their states send more "liberal transplants" up here than we send down there. Most of the people fleeing California and Illinois are doing so because they are conservatives. I doubt Jesse Jackson moved up north because he believes in "states rights".
Conservative and liberal mean different things in different states.
Ahh, Texas has a long coast line - you see, the ocean around Florida is our ocean, too. :o) Take a look at a map for goodness sakes. There are numerous cities on the coast and jobs available due to well drilling and other services, like oil refining plants.
Not only is Texas a port in the storm for conservatives fleeing blue states, it’s probably going to end up being the last real hope for America.
America as we know it will soon die, but somewhere a truncated version of the country may form... Texas seems as likely as anywhere to be that follow-on to America.
A close friend and her husband lived in California. Had a thriving business till state taxes and regulations almost ruined it. They packed up and moved to Texas. The business is thriving and so are they. My friend just told me they are selling the business and retiring. She said they wouldn’t have been able to retire if they had stayed in California.
Waves, no.
South Carolina welcomes you!
Blessed by two hundred years of bad publicity, the Palmetto State has race relations that are better than most, our muzzies are seen & not heard, our gun manufacturing base grows monthly, our liberals bemoan the paucity of their numbers, and yes, Lindsey Graham will soon be history.
Morale is high among traditionally minded folks here. Churches abound. We do not have the ideological patchwork you find in North Carolina. No Ashevilles here.
Check out Greenville-Spartanburg for its tech base.
The Civil War officially began just a few blocks from where I live, and the one Starbucks here is a liberal petting zoo, what’s not to like?
Here is a trailer for a movie about surfing in Texas, remember that in Texas the water is warm and you can park your car on the beach and camp for weeks at a time, with your guns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOY8GCbHk7o
Why don’t all LIBs move to LIB-run states. Leave the rest of us alone. LIBs should never be given any authority, responsibility or power. All they are worth is a laugh. What putrid, destructive morons.
But no point breaks. And I don't think I could last between hurricane seasons.
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