Interesting.
It sure as hell worked her in SC, that’s how we ended up with Graham...twice.
That’s exactly what has happened here in New Hampshire. The flood of liberal from Massachusetts and Connecticut have turned this once Red state a deep shade of Blue.
Flooding out of blue countries, too.
That’s the basis of the redistribution shell game - they get one to think someone else is paying for one’s own do-goodism.
The next wave moves to red states because of the draconian gun laws in their home states. Maybe not a huge number, but some, and that can make a difference.
Likewise, people living in Red States, like my kids are doing all they can to stay out of blue states, for the same reason - they’ll have to hand in their guns at the borders. So when good-looking jobs do pop up in those states, and it does happen, once in a while, they politely say “no, sorry”.
I think the author is a little too optimistic. It is sad, but true, that a lot of people move into (NC for instance) from blue states without realizing that it is their elected politicians in the blue states that have made the jobs dry up there.
They vote blue in ignorance, even while having to transplant to a red state for survival.
That’s the liberal disease.. destroy one area with their twisted logic and make it uninhabitable and then move to another.
Replace the zombies with scu*bag leftists and you have a movie plot with monsters just as ravenous as the flesh eating zombies.
IMHO
Invading Blue state leeches will wreck everything good about the red states.
Low tax, low regulation in red states means there is lots of room for the blue folks to add “just a little bit” here.
A tax increase her “for the children”, a fee increase there “for the environment” and wait until you get the ultimate swindle: the municipal bond.
Let’s build this shiny new school now for my kids now, float a 30 year bond, paid by future taxes on everyone.
I get the new school for my kids, and in 15 years when it’s falling apart, you all still have to pat for it.
I pay nothing, get the biggest benefit and you are left holding the nag.
Do that hundreds of times, for everything under the sun, and don’t forget to add in all the new public-sector employee leeches that have to be feed, and you get a blue state economy.
Make the state constitution changes necessary to control this insanity will you still can.
Locust are known to migrate to areas with vegetation when they’ve consumed or ruined most of it in their own habitats.
Nice article, but hardly realistic. I am from CA (don’t judge me! lol)
Having seen the Californication of many neighboring states, I see the opposite results. Transplants have vastly different interests. Moving from Cali or another rich state to a poor state gives them undue influence from an economic standpoint and they often have time to “pursue other interests, now.”
In transplantese, that equates to pursuing more of your money. They want the same unsupportable infrastructure and the same onerous taxation—as long as they aren’t paying. Regulation and indoctrination follow as sure as night follows day.
I have first hand knowledge of the transformation in Virginia. Over the last few decades the cancer of liberals has spread from Northern Va. into the more rural counties that are still within commuting distance. Without fail, the new residents who say they are fleeing the city and it’s problems,immediately begin to transform their new hometown into what they left. They love the “rustic” feel of the area, and complain about the dust from the dirt roads. The close in areas like Arlington, Fairfax, and Alexandria have become crime ridden jungles. Now Loudoun County is following suit. Burglaries, gang violence, gridlock traffic, and on and on. My roots here go back several generations, but I’m about one more tax increase from saying adios.
What useful idiots do for an agenda
The NYT like so many dedicated Leftist rags engage in a lot of ink based wishful thinking with the hope that it will influence its semi-literate subscribers. Their falling market share and advertising revenues speak differently.
Well, I can tell you one huge reason why they, blue staters, move to mostly in the southern red states...they’re trying to get away from cold weather. Usually, they have to work in blue states before they retire. But if they can afford it on their retirement, they’re going to retire to a place where they can be warm. That’s what my parents did...moved from cold Wisconsin to Texas.
Not surprising since it happens locally too. For several decades, white liberals here in Pennsylvania have been escaping from Philadelphia to surrounding Republican towns. They’re like locusts.
NYC is a festering, contagious, boil of contamination.
Actually, two Midwest states have Democrat governors -- Minnesota and Missouri. But the other nine are all Republican.