EXITING CALIFORNIA! -- Invasion Of The Fleeing Golden Staters!

ICONOCLAST ^ | by Lin Anderson

[Apolitical]

ICONOCLAST EXCLUSIVE!!

EXITING CALIFORNIA!
-- Invasion Of The Fleeing Golden Staters!



Bye, Bye, California; Nevada, Here They Come!

by Lin Anderson

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the traditional American immigration pattern -- East to West, for those of you who slept through "U.S. Demographic History" that day -- seems no longer to be operative here in the 21st century.

For the record, also inoperative are common sense and the Detroit Tigers.

"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," wrote Horace Greeley back there in 1865 in an editorial in the New York Tribune. Modern-day researchers have, however, found that the same exact words were penned 14 years earlier by a Mr. John Soule in a Terre Haute, Indiana, newspaper. It must be gratifying for former New York "journalist" Jayson Blair to serenely contemplate that in his tenure with the New York Times, he was in fact just carrying on a longstanding Empire State tradition established by Horace Greeley.

No matter its provenance -- as they say pretty much hourly around the New York Times these days -- the quote has long been a linchp in in the annals of the western United States, even though the odds are pretty good that Greeley was drunker than a convention of Dean Martin impersonators when he plagiarized it.

According to an article by Haya El Nasser, in a recent very colorful edition of USA Today, the Census Bureau has determined that today's immigration patterns are from West to East -- more specifically from California to anyplace distraught Californians can think of to flee to.

"Most of the people leaving California," the USA Today piece notes, "are going to other Western states such as Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Colorado." And most of the most of them are going to Nevada. Or, as writer Haya El Nasser hilariously phrases it, "Nevada was the biggest beneficiary" of these refugees from Gray Davis's Worker's Paradise.

Lucky us.

The bureau estimates that some 200,000 Californians made tracks to Nevada in the late 1990s, hoping to escape such happy Golden State features as "earthquakes, race riots, economic downturns, a wave of foreign immigration and skyrocketing housing prices." While we haven't had the earthquakes or race riots yet, we seem of late to be quite well represented by the other items on the list, so I'm thinking it's just a matter of time before some unpopular court verdict or other causes the ground to start shaking and the good china to come hurtling off the shelves.

It's not exactly a stunning revelation that a sizeable chunk of the Golden State's population is scurrying over the border and into our hearts. We're handy, after all. Right next door, you might say. In the line of fire, certainly.

Nevada is also attractive by virtue of our having no state income tax; but, per capita, we have just as many nutball legislators as the Californians are used to. I'd say that would make the immigrants feel right at home, but their goal always seems to be something along the lines of making our home feel an awf ul lot like their former home.

It has been a recurring theme of mine -- for at least the past four years or so-- that, as Nevada has become more and more a Haven for the Disaffected Soul (particularly the Disaffected Soul from our neighbor to the West), we have found many of our own cherished Silver State traditions relentlessly assailed. As the folks from Fresno, the beings from Bakersfield and the peeps from Pomona have arrived, so, predictably, have the demands for smoke-free casinos, smog inspection stations, vegetarian menu alternatives and draconian zoning ordinances.

It's as if these refugees had risked their very lives fleeing the Nazis and then suddenly decided upon reflection that maybe they liked that whole crazy "we VILL rule da VORLD" concept after all.

I was a Californian long ago, and have many acquaintances who presently live -- if you call that living -- Over There. I also lived in Seattle back when the California license plates started showing up in unsuspecting neighborhoods with alarming frequency, so I know how this thing works -- or, more to the point -- doesn't work.

I had a conversation with a Seattle-based friend of mine awhile back during which we reminisced about the California invasion. He noted with some degree of cynicism that the hordes which had poured into the city during the 1980s and 1990s were, as the new century dawned, rapidly tiring of the area and were even now pointing their fuel-efficient vehicles south, toward Oregon.

If you've scanned the news out of Oregon lately, you know they arrived there safely.

I fear the upcoming recall election will find even more of our neighbors dropping next door to borrow a cup of sanity. With Gray Davis "alternatives" including Arnold Schwarzenegger ("The Governator"), Arianna Huffington, tiny Gary Coleman ("Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Davis?"), and big blob Larry Flynt already on the goofy ballot -- which may includ e the names of dozens of candidates by the time voters finally trudge wearily to the polls in October -- men, women and children from Redding to Riverside are likely even now nibbling low-calorie things like their fingernails and planning a daring escape to a more hospitable climate such as, for example, us...Nevada!

What's to be done? ...............

[Jay D. Dyson]

In any case, it's no coincidence:

More lights, more people

More people, more liberals.

Gee, by that logic, Africa should be awash with Conservatives.

-Jay

[potlatch]

lawyers were in the vangard, to help prepare the legal system for the expectations of the fleeing leftists

Just what we need! Lawyers are the cause of our troubles now!!

[Age of Reason]

Hey, fewer commies.

[Age of Reason]

Gee, by that logic, Africa should be awash with Conservatives.

I would say before Africa became overpopulated, life would have been lit only by fire and very conservative.

Imagine how long a NYC liberal would last in such an environment.

[austinTparty]

Jefferson was a brilliant man and visionary statesman; we'll allow him a few errors. This was one, his position on "the Negro race" another (one could say his fawning over the French was another one). Lincoln told racist jokes, does that mean that those who admire him have to believe that that's okay, too?

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Age of Reason]

Surprise.

It IS population--NOT lights--the map shows:

"The U. S. Census Bureau has produced a 2000 Population Distribution in the United States map . . . .

" . . . . population locations are shown as if lights were visible during the night sky."

My source:

About the Census Bureau's U.S. Population Distribution Map

[Susannah]

"I might be forgiven for concluding that the greater the population density, the more votes for candidates like Gore."

The 2000 county-by-county election map is still available at>>
http://fs.huntingdon.edu/jlewis/Outlines/BushCountyMapMandate.htm

[Susannah]

Some Californians may be fleeing, but the state's population went up by 21% in the last four years. State revenues also went up by 28%, but Davis increased spending by 40%. ( source : http://www.tommcclintock.com

[Susannah]

"Let's hope Graham, "Gray", Davis becomes himself, a refugee of his own making and finds his way back to his hometown of Brooklyn, New, York and stays there."

LOL, is he really from Brooklyn?

[Susannah]

I wonder how a map of our "Federal and State owned preserved lands" would compare with the density and voting maps. seems like the greens are successfully keeping people from using/occupying land in the west.

Also interesting that the majority of our military people come from the west and the south.

Liberals claim to be watching out for the poor and the environment. I would give every "poor" person an acre of federal land which they could then sell to the highest bidder or occupy. Even if the greens win the bids for the land, we could make the greens be the caretakers of the land and get the maintenance off our tax burden. Let them pay for the fire services too.

[elbucko]

LOL, is he really from Brooklyn?

Yes he is.

[Susannah]

FYI, compare the population density map with the government lands map posted at the following thread>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961341/posts?page=6#6

[kstewskis]

As the folks from Fresno, the beings from Bakersfield and the peeps from Pomona have arrived, so, predictably, have the demands for smoke-free casinos, smog inspection stations, vegetarian menu alternatives and draconian zoning ordinances.

Dang, that sounds like Arizona in the last 10 years...

[kstewskis]

As the folks from Fresno, the beings from Bakersfield and the peeps from Pomona have arrived, so, predictably, have the demands for smoke-free casinos, smog inspection stations, vegetarian menu alternatives and draconian zoning ordinances.

And on that note...

It's amazing how many of the Californians that migrate out of state, complain about the "foreign" immigrants that moved to California who don't assimilate into the area.

Yeah, irksome, right?

Then they come to the surrounding states (or wherever) and do exactly the opposite...they don't assimilate into the state of their chosing.

And they wonder why the locals look at them with a suspect eye?

[GrandMoM]

BUMP

[kstewskis]

I hope it's only the conservatives deserting! Nobody wants an invasion of the freaky liberals from California.

We wish. Unfortunately, that very thing is happening in AZ. It's getting more liberal here by the minute. Damit-Janet Napolitano (a former Klintoon appointee) was nominated Gov last year. The conservative base is slowly being netralized (and out whined) by the libs out here.

[kstewskis]

I will do anything in my power to keep Californians from moving here, usually I lie about the scorpions, the rattlesnakes, the trunk murderesses, the poisonous wild condors, the indian burial grounds that all the houses are built on top of, the flesh eating bacterium, the slow drivers from Minnesota....

LOL, I love it.

It always cracks me up when I visit Kalifornia, and I tell them where I live. Their comment to me is:

"Isn't it hot there?"

duh.

[kstewskis]

I think you might want to go to Idaho. They have a lot of land and no people.

Idaho isn't immune either. Many Californians are moving there too, especially the Couer D'Laine area. That town inherited 3 more Californians a few weeks ago....my sister, bro-in-law, and nephew.

At least it stays relatively conservative. Many retired fire and police there. However, the property values are growing, a la California style.

[potlatch]

The conservative base is slowly being netralized (and out whined) by the libs out here

Sorry to hear that! Maybe WE need to do more WHINING!! LOL!

[potlatch]

Sorry, I haven't logged on in a couple of nights. Also sorry to hear that it's the liberals invading you! Why are they able to 'take over' everything? Are we just being too nice, or wimpy?? LOL!