IN HEAVILY TAXED STATES, PEOPLE VOTE WITH THEIR FEET

The Cypress Times ^ | 1/20/10 | Kevin Price

[Patriot1259]

Major news sources like to monitor migration trends among states. The Census Bureau has been watching these trends also and what you find "between the lines," is really quite interesting.

The fastest growing states for population are (in order) Wyoming, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Alaska, Arizona, Washington, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina.

There are several unique characteristics about these population shifts:

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There are several unique characteristics about these population shifts:

• They are often huge. Texas gained over 500,000 in one year. This is largely attributable to the huge number of businesses that have relocated to the state.

• All of these states lean Republican or are very Republican. Republican strategists’ lips salivate when they think of these population shifts to their state. This means more Congressional seats moving to their states and away (as you will see later) from Democrat states. However, they may be surprised by the long term results, as I will explain later.

• They tend to be in the West or (even more so) the South. This has been a trend that has persisted for decades and continues to be the case. Politically, the implications of this are significant. All of our Presidents since John F. Kennedy have been from Texas, California, Georgia, and Arkansas (with the exception of our sitting President and Gerald Ford.

What about states that have seen a decline in population? They are, starting with the biggest loser, Michigan, Maine, Rhode Island, Ohio, Vermont, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Mississippi.

• They are in overwhelmingly liberal states. With the exception of Mississippi, these states are all “true blue.” This, again, makes conservatives excited and liberals concerned, but the long term implications could prove different.

• With the exception of Mississippi, all of these are in the East Coast and Midwest, which have also suffered when it comes to political prestige and power.

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The problem is liberal locusts who destroy their own state, then move somewhere else and start the whole process over again by voting for liberals.

That's why Californians are so hated here in Idaho and other places that they move to ruin.

We have a Democrat congressman right now because of this (Walt Minnick). He is a so-called "blue dog" conservative Democrat.

My question is this: knowing that the Democrat party is run by hard-core Marxists, why would anyone who is even remotely conservative associate themselves with it? If you are a true-blue conservative, you should belong to the Republican party. If you don't, then your conservative credentials are probably bogus.

[Chickensoup]

Maine is getting worse and worse.