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Posted on 08/24/2014 7:07:04 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Californians have moved to Colorado and Nevada. Massachusetts natives have moved to New Hampshire. New Yorkers have moved to North Carolina and Virginia — and, of course, have continued moving to Florida.
Over the last few decades, residents of many traditionally liberal states have moved to states that were once more conservative. And this pattern has played an important role in helping the Democratic Party win the last two presidential elections and four of the last six. The growth of the Latino population and the social liberalism of the millennial generation may receive more attention, but the growing diaspora of blue-state America matters as well.
The blue diaspora has helped offset the fact that many of the nation’s fastest-growing states are traditionally Republican. You can think of it as a kind of race: Population growth in these Republican states is reducing the share of the Electoral College held by traditionally Democratic states. But Democratic migration has been fast enough, so far, to allow the party to overcome the fact that the Northeast and industrial Midwest contain a smaller portion of the country’s population than they once did.
The migration helped President Obama win Colorado, Florida and Virginia in both 2008 and 2012. In 2014, the influx of blue-state natives gives Democrats a better chance to win Senate races in Colorado, Georgia and North Carolina, among other places.
The spread of people born in New York State offers a particularly telling example: Of the 20 million Americans alive today who were born in New York, nearly one in six now live in the South. That would have been almost unthinkable 50 years ago, when the share was one in 25.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
My family moved to California from the New York area about the time you mentioned....circa 1974. California gained additional Republican voters when my family moved there (to Santa Barbara).
I lived in California for 16 years and there was no shortage of native-born California twenty-something and thirty-something voters who were proud liberals and voted as such.
You also can’t discount illegal immigration.....once the anchor babies reach voting age, they’re overwhelmingly voting for the rats.
Then there’s the liberal teachers, brainwashing the next generation of voters with their leftist agenda.
Tell them to find out if Stein’s has a web site, and they can then order their bagels online.
I would also tell them they’re welcome to stay if they vote conservative, otherwise I would request they move back to New York. That should chap their hide!
Minorities as classified by the USG. They vote more than two to one Democrat. When will CA be Rep again?
Diaspora? Nyet. Infiltrators.
Amazing that the libtards don’t catch the connection between their parasitic and destructive policies and their dire impact on the conomy and community. Thus, the label, “libtard”.
Back in the mid 90’s I was at a very small medical lab being tested when I heard these two ‘sweet’ little old ladies with thick northeastern accents. Exclaiming in glee that there were soon going to be more ‘services’ here for when they came down for the winter and that they were going to have to tell, Edna, Michelle.... etc. all about it and maybe they could come down for the winter too since it was so miserably cold up there.
Well... that’s exactly what happened and that whole area of Florida is now a cess-pit. I left and I’ve never been back.
Back in the '80s I was still in California and took a trip up to Canada. As soon as I crossed the state line I began seeing bumper stickers saying the now classic "Don't Californicate [fill in the state].
Nobody listened.
When the GOP gets its act together. Conservatives outnumber liberals in CA.
I can attest to the infestation from NY to Georgia. The NY tags are everywhere. They move down here and then vote to turn our state into the same chithole they left behind.
Where can I get one of those?
Please Libs if you move to a Red State... Leave your Liberal BS home.
“My family moved to California from the New York area about the time you mentioned....circa 1974. California gained additional Republican voters when my family moved there (to Santa Barbara).
I lived in California for 16 years and there was no shortage of native-born California twenty-something and thirty-something voters who were proud liberals and voted as such.”
You arrived too late. Boxster and Pelousey were already here. Babs rolled in from Brooklyn in the late 60’s along with Nazi, who grew up in The People’s Republic of Baltimore.
I am sure we had our own home-grown liberals as well (Fineswine and Brown are notable members of this group), but the fact remains that growing up in California in the 1950’s as I did, it was a very red state.
Back then the Blacks were on the move, but they made an alliance with the Mexicans which the Mexicans ignored just as soon as they were able to make it politically on their own. Right now, our State Legislature is mostly Liberal Jews and Mexicans, with a few token Blacks from “pockets” in SoCal. At one time Willie Brown was Assembly Speaker for years, and Mervyn Dymally was Lt. Governor. But I will wager that a Black will never be in either position ever again, let alone be our governor. Even Brown is an anachronism today.
Because they are progressives and are incapable of learning. They do not connect their problems with their ideology, so they keep repeating the same mistakes. I believe it is the definition of insanity.
You are delusional.
“Once ruined, it’s almost impossible to turn back,...”
Bingo, you nailed it!! It requires a total reset to eradicate not only those who caused it, but the laws, polices, education system—a top-to-bottom sanitization of the prior libtard existence!
Prime example of how very little NYT reporters know about the subject in question.
It appears that they are implying that New Yorkers move to NC & VA, then continue to Florida. Actually, it is the other way around. They FIRST move to Florida, learn that it is HOT & HUMID in the summer, then move half the way BACK to NY, i.e., to North Carolina where it is cooler.
'Round here we call them "half-backs".
On the other hand, they may be trying to say that NY'ers NOW also are moving to NC & VA and that they continue to move from NY to Fla.
English is my second language, so I may have misunderstood. My native language is "grit".
I suspect you are a GOPe troll.
Anyone who thinks the GOP has a shot at taking CA is delusional. It is among the bluest of blue states thanks to immigration and liberalism.
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