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Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States
Townhall.com ^ | February 12, 2018 | Rachel Alexander

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. 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bluestate; bluestatesvredstates; conservatism; economy; liberals; redstates
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To: Alberta's Child

I’d rather they stay where they are and continue to pay the taxes that they voted for instead of destroying other places.


41 posted on 02/12/2018 6:16:06 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Kaslin
With the exception of Houston, according to Redfin, the top nine cities people are leaving are all in blue states.

But Houston is a blue city. And Texas will be purple in another 5-10 years.

42 posted on 02/12/2018 6:17:16 AM PST by TexasKamaAina
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To: TallahasseeConservative

No different than the 3rd world immigrants all over this country that make demands of it, because they want the US to be more like the country they “escaped” from.


43 posted on 02/12/2018 6:17:33 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Hattie
Heaven help us in TX and the red states.

If the ILLEGALS continue infesting TX it will be blue in a few years, then it's over. This is the very reason the RATS do not want a wall. Plain and simple.

If they take over Texas we are screwed for good. There will be no hope whatsoever.

44 posted on 02/12/2018 6:20:56 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Kaslin
Rank 2010 Census 2017 est Change

1 TX 25,145,561 . 28,304,596 +12.56% 3.2m how man Cong Dist?

2 ND. . .672,591 . . . .755,393 +12.31%

3 UT. 2,763,885 . . 3,101,833 +12.23%

4 FL 18,801,310 . 20,984,400 +11.61% 2.1m how many Cong Dist?

5 CO. 5,029,196 .. . 5,607,154 +11.49%

6 NV. 2,700,551 . . 2,998,039 +11.02%

7 WA. 6,724,540 . . 7,405,743 +10.13%

8 AZ. 6,392,017 . . 7,016,270 +9.77%

9 ID. 1,567,582 . . . 1,716,943 +9.53%

10 SC. 4,625,364 . . 5,024,369 +8.63%

11 OR. 3,831,074 . . 4,142,776 +8.14%

12 NC. 9,535,483 . 10,273,419 +7.74%

13 GA. 9,687,653 . 10,429,379 +7.66%

45 posted on 02/12/2018 6:24:18 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: Sasparilla

This is really no different than muslims, who overbreed and flood the locale with little muzzies. Eventually, the roaches take over and dominate politically, legally, and economically (if there is an economy left).


46 posted on 02/12/2018 6:25:08 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Kaslin
One correction: Ohio is hardly a "blue state." There is not one democrat statewide officeholder, only one rat senator and a few congresscritters. And 2018 looks pretty good.

But even with low unemployment the economy is still lagging, no thanks to a recently ineffectual governor Kasich.

47 posted on 02/12/2018 6:25:18 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: unixfox

The illegals are not what is turning TX (and my GA) purple. It is us Rust Belt City refugees fleeing south and bringing our politics with us that is turning Red States Purple.


48 posted on 02/12/2018 6:25:36 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: Kaslin
Democrats claim their policies are superior to Republicans, but they keep leaving their blue states and moving into red states.

...which will turn blue because of the influx of stupidity. Liberals flee the consequences of their actions, but won't change the behaviors which triggered those consequences in the first place. In this, liberals have much in common with locusts.
49 posted on 02/12/2018 6:25:39 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Alberta's Child

Their being taxpayers is not the problem. Their wanting to raise those taxes is.


50 posted on 02/12/2018 6:27:03 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: 1217Chic

We live in Belvidere in Warren County and are not too far from you. They are doing the same thing here. They come in from back east and bring they’re politics with them.


51 posted on 02/12/2018 6:27:11 AM PST by certrtwngnut (w)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
We were talking about "Californication" when I lived in Arizona-- 40 years ago. It has only gotten worse.
52 posted on 02/12/2018 6:27:40 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Kaslin

Not exudus - we are being invaded by liberal/socialists - HELP!!!


53 posted on 02/12/2018 6:28:28 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Lisbon1940

I agree. I would have no problem with a five-year wait period to vote when I move to Texas or Florida, and I’m conservative!


54 posted on 02/12/2018 6:28:43 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: spintreebob

You obviously haven’t been to south Texas. English is a second language.


55 posted on 02/12/2018 6:28:50 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: certrtwngnut

Yes I was going to look around in Warren County but the taxes are higher then Hunterdon....Pa. is much cheaper I just don’t want to move there....Looking to head up north to NH....


56 posted on 02/12/2018 6:29:46 AM PST by 1217Chic
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To: 1217Chic

Just sell at a loss anyway and move to a red state to counter-balance all the blue invaders.


57 posted on 02/12/2018 6:30:41 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: New Jersey Realist

The people leaving Rust Belt cities are people who want to work, and work in the private sector, not people on welfare. On that criteria, they are approachable on politics.

The problem is that (at least in GA, and from what I see in the mountains of Cruz stuff I get in TX also) Republicans / Conservatives are not approaching the refugees and asking them to think about why there are no jobs in Rust Belt cities and why there are jobs in Red States.

Heritage, AFP, CATO, TeaParty, Breitbart, Townhall, and all the media linked here on FR... they all target the base, the choir. Nobody on our side is reaching to beyond our base.


58 posted on 02/12/2018 6:31:27 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: 1217Chic

If you look in White Township, Oxford, Harmony and a few other towns the taxes are not so bad. The taxes here in Belvidere have risen tremendously in the past ten years but there is a lot of inexpensive housing because of people defaulting on mortgages. We would welcome you with open arms.


59 posted on 02/12/2018 6:35:50 AM PST by certrtwngnut (w)
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To: Lisbon1940

AZ TO HOT!

Yup..
I got AC!


60 posted on 02/12/2018 6:38:13 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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