“It’s been heavily polluted by a bunch of refugees from California, who brought their lunacy with them.”
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The influx from Mexifornia began in the 1980s. I remember many libs buying homes in Denver, that were twice as large as the ones they sold in CA, for half the price. It has continued to this day and the, once conservative leaning state is now ultra liberal.
No one listened.
Most of these CA-to-CO migrants were left-leaning Republicans, libertarians, unaffiliateds, RINOs .... They were just smart enough to realize that something had gone horribly wrong with their formerly utopian "Golden State" mecca, and that they needed to flee it ... especially those raising families.
But just dumb enough to not realize that the political attitudes they brought with them from CA, and the type of people they voted into office out here, were repeating the same destructive cycle in their pristine new home.