Posted on 08/29/2003 7:02:30 AM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:49:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Why the hostility. Is it directed at me?
A Potomac Watch column a few years back from Wall St. Journal guru Paul Gigot was complaining about Lamar Smith and Alan Simpson and their attempts to shut down the border from those few, poor "campesinos" who just want a better life as waiters. He even went on to play the race card in another write-up.
The country was being invaded and the Journal just preferred to demonize anyone who tried to stop it. Now they write these sob stories about how Americans are leaving the very states the poor campesinos illegally settled in. Should we have expected anything else? They are so out of touch with the immigration disaster it's pathetic and have actually been part of the problem for years.
Sometimes I whine because there is none in Tennessee.
LOL. There was an article posted here a few days ago desribing Wyoming in a similar fashion. Having been to both places, I'd have to say that Montana will be ruined befoe Wyoming is, simply because Wyoming has had very few people moving there from the outside.
Again, you're confusing the northern liberals, who wouldn't move South if you paid 'em, with the escapees, who are glad to reach saner territory.
I live in the North Carolina suburbs, bursting with Yankees -- and NC suburbs are the driving force of conservatism in the state right now. You want good conservatives, you look at the senators and reps from Mecklenburg and Wake. You want RINOs? Try rural Moore County.
The only suburban liberals 'round here are the hippies around Chapel Hill et al, buncha rich white granola-eating elitist professors.
The normal suburbanites have good jobs, send their kids to private or parochial school, have insurance through their jobs, and go to church on Sunday. Their primary interest is to keep their property, income, and business taxes down and resist disruptions to social order like "gay rights".
On the other hand they don't have the same appetite for good-old-boy us-vs-them rhetoric that has allowed Dems to hold sway over rural NC.
My sister-in-law rents a better apartment for $200, then the one I was renting last year for $850. My mother in law's mortgage on her 6 acre property, 4 bedroom house with 2500 square feet is only $625 a month. It's ridiculous to pay more to live in a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles than in a house with land. Smog, traffic, no space, crime, liberalism, and you pay more for it. Woohoo.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- About 60 percent of the 5.6 million foreign-born population who moved to the United States between 1995 and 2000 entered the country through six "gateway" states (California, New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey), an analysis of Census 2000 data shows.
At the same time, three of the gateway states New York, California and Illinois had considerable net out-migration of their foreign-born populations to other states between 1995 and 2000. New Jersey was the only gateway state to have net out-migration of natives but net in-migration of foreign-born people.
"One of the major findings of Census 2000 was the overall size of the foreign-born population and its presence in areas outside the traditional immigration gateways such as California, New York and Texas," said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon. "Like the Westward migration of immigrants in centuries past, their movements remind us that opportunities abound throughout our country." Among the biggest beneficiaries of secondary migration, i.e., foreign-born migrants from other states, were North Carolina (76,000) and Nevada (73,000). Nevada had more foreign-born migrants from other states than it did from abroad.
The new Census Bureau report, Migration of Natives and the Foreign Born: 1995 to 2000, examined Census 2000 data to compare migration patterns for natives (people born in the United States) with people born abroad. Among the report's findings:
-- Domestic migration patterns of foreign-born and native migrants were similar, with common destinations.
-- Between 1995 and 2000, California's net out-migration rate to other states for its foreign-born people (30.4 people lost per 1,000 foreign-born residents in 1995) was higher than its net out-migration rate for natives (22.6 people lost per 1,000 native residents in 1995). -- California was responsible for most foreign-born migrants to Georgia, with 19,000 making the cross-country move during the five-year period.
-- Nevada had the highest net migration rate of foreign-born migrants from other states, gaining 276 people for every 1,000 foreign-born residents in 1995, while Florida had the largest net migration gain of foreign-born migrants from other states: 89,000.
-- Some states and counties in the Midwest had net domestic out-migration of natives but net domestic in-migration of the foreign-born population. For example, Nebraska and Kansas had native net out-migration rates of 13.1 and 5.2, but foreign-born net in-migration rates of 101.0 and 47.6, respectively.
The report and supplementary data tables, as well as previously published migration reports, are available on the Internet at http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/migration.html.
Hehehe......
I looked at him and said "Thats right you red neck hick!" He went inside and never said another word to me. He was quickly introduced to my Gibson Explore and my vast array of amps and effect pedals.
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