Posted on 02/12/2018 5:47:08 AM PST by Kaslin
Democrats claim their policies are superior to Republicans, but they keep leaving their blue states and moving into red states. Democrats are known for taking over large urban areas and turning them blue, then deserting them as they become unpleasant to move on to better territory in red states where they make the same transformations. They increase taxes and regulations, making it expensive and annoying to live wherever they get into power.
According to United Van Lines, the top 10 states people are leaving include the blue states Wisconsin, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Illinois. Only three red states made the list; Kentucky, Utah, and Kansas.
The top 10 states people are moving to include the red states Idaho, South Dakota, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Nevada and Colorado (the last two are purplish states). Only three solidly blue states made the list, Vermont, Oregon and Washington. In 2017, Vermont slipped, with its inbound and outbound moving becoming about equal. Notably, all three of those states used to be much more moderate, only turning blue within the past 25 years or so. Longtime residents in Washington and Oregon regularly rant about Californians taking over their states and turning them blue. People in Vermont complain about Democrats from Massachusetts and New York moving into their state. The bluer those three states become, the fewer people will move there as we’re already seeing with Vermont.
Last week, CBS in San Francisco reported that the number of people leaving the Bay Area reached its highest level in more than a decade. Topping the list of reasons for moving was the high cost of housing. Democrats are more reluctant than Republicans to allow permits for homebuilding, and pile on regulations.
With the exception of Houston, according to Redfin, the top nine cities people are leaving are all in blue states. Besides San Francisco, they include New York, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago, Houston, Detroit, Dayton and Milwaukee. Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the world, and San Francisco is not far behind. Democrats are fond of diverting transportation money into public transportation and HOV lanes instead of easing traffic congestion with more traffic lanes.
A majority of the top 10 cities people are moving to are located in red states. They include Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, Tampa and Miami. The other cities are San Diego, Sacramento, Boston and Las Vegas, which is located in a purplish state.
Moving companies survey those moving as to why. Economic opportunities is a big reason. United Van Lines found that 60 percent of respondents from the Midwest move to take new employment or a job transfer. Michael Stoll, economist and professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, says two main reasons people move are for lower housing costs and higher job growth.
Retiring in a better state is also a popular reason for moving. United Van Lines found 17 percent of those moving from the Midwest cited a different retirement location.
The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council ranks states according to their economic performance. Many of the states that people are moving to are ranked toward the top. Seven are red states and one is purple. Many of the most common states that people are moving out of are clustered around the bottom of the list. The bottom 10 include Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut and Wisconsin.
People are leaving Los Angeles in droves, and blue California was ranked the last state in the country for business 12 years in a row, according to Chief Executive magazine’s annual Best and Worst States for Business survey of CEOs. Red Texas ranked number one the past 12 years. One CEO complained in the survey, “States like California just don’t get it. At the rate they are going, who’s going to pay the bills with such an anti-business, leftist government and businesses leaving every month for Arizona and Washington state?” California has the highest state income tax in the country. The survey also noted that the bottom 10 states are not right-to-work states, but most of the top 10 are.
The reason California as a whole isn’t in the top 10 states people are leaving is likely due to its weather, which is a key reason people move. Likewise, the reason red Arizona isn’t in the top 10 states people are moving to is because it’s so hot.
Democrats will point to the handful of blue states and cities that are still popular locations to move to as evidence their policies aren’t all bad. But they’re in the minority, and trends are turning against them. Pretty soon the only blue areas people will be flocking to will be areas the Democrats recently turned blue. Democrats can talk the talk, but actions speak louder than words.
They really like that blue/red thingy the media foisted on us.
Americans Gould be able to move wherever they like, but there should be a waiting period to vote after a move. I suggest five years, by which time they may have assimilated.
Liberals are like locusts..
They consume and move on.
Please, please do not Californicate Colorado any more than it has been.
We’re already going to have to fumigate Denver (a true shithole...yes, you can take a bodacious Obama on the streets there), and Boulder (where they love the smell of their own f*rts).
Liberals, return to your outhouses.
AINOS will quickly replace them w/world citizens, etc...(voters) others of the....y’know!!!!!
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I saw this in the 90s when Californians were moving to Colorado. The natives of Colorado called this being, “Californicated”. Of course, those Californians brought their insane liberalism with them making the State loony.
They are like illegal aliens and refugees fleeing their $#itholes for better places where they immediately want to transform that better place into the same $#ithole that they have fled.
Heaven help us in TX and the red states.
Unfortunately my condo in Clinton NJ cannot sell for what I paid for it so I’m stuck for now....Used to be a nice area, now it’s a filthy liberal cesspool.....
It's both. I'm in the people's republic of MA. Lieberals have moved out and infected lower NH - like Nashua.
OTOH, back here in MA, we are losing Conservatives who've had enough. These folks are a plus to any red state that gets them. And, a very big net MINUS to those of us remaining in MA, as it gets harder to keep the small delegation of R's in the legislature, keep a nominal 'R' honest to the cause, and gets lonelier in our respective towns for want of fellow Conservatives.
The urban areas of the places mentioned will get the majority of those Dem’s. And they’ll move to the WHITEST areas in the city, because they’re all about diversity, but only if it doesn’t live next door to them. They will spread out when they realize that the city schools, suck and the price of a good private school is at least as much as college tuition. So, they’ll spread to the suburbs, where they’ll spread and multiply turning Red places, Purple then Blue. They’ll believe that their policies are good if they could only get a chance to do it over and they will destroy wherever they move to.
They are like locust. They fly into an area eat and destroy it then move to the next place.
And the vacancies that are created in the $hitholes they left are backfilled by immigrants.
“Yup. Move away, but bring their liberal ideas and voting patterns with them, thus beginning to turn the places they move into the places they left.”
Yeah they crap in their state until it stinks and won’t flush so they move into another state and start crapping in it. “This his how we did it in Crapifornia.” They are immigrants that refuse to conform to the new state.
There goes the neighborhood!
You’re one of the few. Mostly, the Leftists will gravitate to Charlotte, Research Triangle area, but eventually they will spread like a disease, as they have already shown in NC.
“AZ is too damn hot.”
Yeah, but it’s ‘a dry heat’, like a pizza oven!
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