Posted on 04/06/2016 7:23:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
California Exodus: One can make only so many jokes about the Golden State becoming the Tarnished State. But California has done nothing to change the climate causing the decline. People are still leaving in swarms.
Red Texas is, of course, the primary destination for those fleeing blue California. And the evacuation has nearly reached a 10-year high: According to Internal Revenue Service data, 33,626 Californians quit their state for Texas in 2013 and 2014, out of the 250,000 who left the state.
“The number of returns showing address changes from California to Texas hasn’t been this high since the period 2006-07,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday. “During that period, 34,078 returns were filed showing address changes to Texas.”
At the same time, only 21,391 Texans made the reverse trip.
These sobering numbers are backed up by U-Haul rates that show the demand for moving vans leaving California for Texas is much higher than the demand for vans heading in the opposite direction. (See chart.)
Not only is California losing its human capital, it’s also being drained of its businesses. Carl’s Jr. is leading the most recent wave out of the state. Two years ago it was Toyota, which said it was relocating “substantial parts” of its U.S. headquarters from Torrance, Calif., to suburban Dallas. In the last decade, as many as 9,000 businesses have fled the state.
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That’s the plan. Texas’ economy is too large and too successful to cede to the right. As leftist policies destroy leftist states, they parasitise conservative states, and continue the destruction. The way termites move in swarms from house to house, neighborhood to neighborhood. You see it happening a dozen different ways-illegals, liberals, Section 8, etc.
Not with the way their offense has looked so far this season.
Something us "rural" Texans discuss quite frequently.
Liberal infested Austin and Houston have been on my "banned" list...(never go there unless it's a medical emergency) for about 15 years....but Dallas and San Antonio are still tolerable.
You are absolutely right. Texas needs to be very careful. I lived in Montana back in the 60s and 70s when it was a ruff and tumble hard drinking conservative state. Now it has been taken over by the rich leftist from CA. They call it Montanafornia like Texas will become.
Dallas is getting pretty bad as well.
” I doubt they would move to my neck of the woods- no Starbucks for fifty miles.”
Same here. I actually had a couple look at the home next to us ask how close is the nearest Starbuck$. It’s 12 miles, so they weren’t interested.
I like your tagline. I often use taqiyya, sharia, hijera and jihad- what else do you need to know about islam.
Bringing their democratic socialist dreams with them. Look Out Texas!
Yep. NY destroyed NE, then FL, and is now corrupting the Carolinas. NYers are as welcome in the Northeast hinterlands as Cal-tikians (classic monster movie reference) are in the western states.
Living in a state which was formally conservative and still living in the conservative hinterlands, I can tell you from personal experience, the libs in the cities have no problems making laws that affect people far away in areas they will never visit.
Sheesh, city people. We thought it a short trip to drive 40 miles to grocery shop, and that was for a family of 12. It’s app 30 freakin minutes.
I strongly recommend Texas consider strengthening its residency laws.
I work at the Travis-Wilco line and other than going the 3 mile into Travis county I do not go into Austin unless it is absolutely unavoidable.
Is this why I’m seeing more Texas license plates in Nevada?
RE: Is this why I’m seeing more Texas license plates in Nevada?
Are you sure they’re not there to gamble? :)
Th eposted a number the other day that in teh Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, and Caldwell county area there is now 2 million people. 110 net increase a day.
I hear you. I have only back once since leaving in 2011. No plans to visit again. I miss the music scene but everything is overcrowded and loaded with alternative lifestyle types.
That's what Oklahoma and Louisiana are for, all of their big casinos are located just beyond the State border.
As the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this hotel will be standing
Until I pay my bill
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