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.
Stop voting for Democrats!
That’s common. The North is way more racially segregated than the South. I’ve lived in both places. Boston is the most racist city in the US.
” Boston is the most racist city in the US.”
You have visited every city in the USA?
What,specifically,did you see going on in Boston that you did not see in all of those other cities?
I live in the Boston area and maybe I am blind to the problems.
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Same with Florida. The State House is 65% Republican and the State Senate Republicans hold 23 out of 40 seats.
Boston is not in a “purplish” state.
Really? I have family in the area and have been in Boston more times than I can count. Be Black and walk through Southie or the North End at night. Be White and walk through Roxbury and Mission Hill. How many Black live out on the Cape? How many Blacks on the T headed to Government center. Who fought busing the hardest? Watch Louise Day Hicks commercials. There are very few cities in the South that don’t have mixed cities.
As a lifetime California resident & homeowner I have made 3 trips to Oregon/Nevada looking for a home recently.
I know those are not ‘conservative’ states but they are not nearly as bad as CA and I would like to be within driving distance due to family.
I fit right in with rural Oregon/Nevada folks.
I understand that. But it is one of the most segregated cities in the Union.
I’ve been thinking seriously about simplifying my life. Wonder how much money you can make returning trucks to blue states from red states.
Better yet, just put the illegals and opiod addicted addicts in the back for a small fee. They all wanna find the mecca of Seattle, San Fran, Portland, Los Angeles...
I grew up believing the TV’s portrayal of Louisiana as the most backward, ignorant, racist state in the U.S. After visiting other states up north and seeing, and overhearing things, I can truly say there is racism in all of the states, but the South is the only area that gets blamed for it. I have heard comments from Pennsylvanians, Washingtonians, New Yorkers (upstate), that I hadn’t heard for 20 years in Louisiana. Take the log out of your own eye first, Yankees.
Aren’t Nevada and Oregon blue states too? You would move from one blue state to another. I don’t know if that would make any difference.
The mass exodus is even bigger than we first thought. Yikes!
yep, NY to SC here
I didn’t choose to be in NY, I was born there
outvoted the entire damn way until I got sick of it and left
How does that compare to Boise,Denver,Fargo,or even New York City?
There are black areas and there are white areas.
You mentioned Cape Cod-———maybe blacks just don’t want to live there-——and what on earth does that have to do with Boston?
Busing and LD Hicks is going back 40-45 years-———Boston has undergone significant changes since then,as has most of the country.
Stating that Boston is the most racist city in the USA is a gross exaggeration.
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I would recommend Nevada. That broiling heat should keep some of the flakes out.
- or maybe a simple questionnaire with a required essay “ why
I had to leave my liberal paradise”.
The exodus of liberals and their attempt to then change the place they move to gives us great insight to the liberal mind.
The arrogance and ignorance of these people is astounding. They can not or will not admit it was their own political beliefs that ruined their home state. Will not see that their own political beliefs forced them to move.
I have had conversations with New England liberals who have moved to South Carolina and ‘ from away ‘ liberals in Maine.
Not one of them can rationally see or will admit why they had to leave their own state. But they will talk about how much needs to be done to ‘ fix ‘ the state they moved to. They get involved with school boards, local politics and so on because they know what’s best for one and all.
Maine was once a very Republican state and has been ruined by liberals who moved there since the 1970s. Maine is a complete mess and it’s not going to change any time soon.
- and that is coming to a state near you unless they are actively countered by conservative natives ( or new comers ) of each state.
and PS: expect more and more Massholes to show up in your state. The cost of living especially housing is sky rocketing with no end in sight.
Middle class people who once made up large parts of Boston’s neighborhoods are vanishing.
towns and cities bordering Boston have become extremely expensive.
Colorado and North Carolina will eventually go firmly blue.
Not sure any of this is something to celebrate.... Look at what’s happened to New Hampshire.
Boston’s AA population is 24.4%
Boise’s is 1.5%
Denver’s is 10.2%
Atlanta’s is 54%
But Southerners aren’t being lectured by folks in Boise or Atlanta about race relations. It’s coming from those folks living in “liberal” cities and that states that don’t have Black folks around. The irony of Joe Kennedy III lecturing America on race, when he lives in Newton, MA that has a AA population of 2.5% is what I am referring to. Liberals like Kennedy can push their liberal philosophies on race and government on the rest of us, because they never have to live with the consequences of their actions.
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