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The Great California Exodus
WSJ ^ | 4-21-12 | Joel Kotkin

Posted on 04/23/2012 5:08:34 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

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To: BlueLancer

We forgot to tell them about the bugs...great big ugly bugs with teef and ticks and chiggers and fire ants.


41 posted on 04/23/2012 7:23:31 AM PDT by and so? (If it angers you, a sarcasm or irony tag after everything I post should be assumed)
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To: TurboZamboni

The amazing thing is that California had productive industry, educated labor and abundance of natural resources. Things that Greece has very little of.


42 posted on 04/23/2012 7:26:53 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: TurboZamboni
California certainly WAS one of God's best moments and one of the best places in the world to live--from its very beginning through the 19th century (witness Richard Henry Dana's Two Years before the Mast,) and through much of the 20th century--until the forces of decadence rotted the civilization of its inhabitants.

Today the once Golden State decays, its ancient beauty and promises mocked by the absurdities and self-destruction of the ancient enemy of all civilizations.

Spring forever keeps its ancient promise, but only to follow the darkness and severity of winter, cold consolation for those who concern themselves with the foreseeable future.

43 posted on 04/23/2012 7:28:32 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing is more enlightening than truth. Nothing is darker than mendacity.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I got a reprieve from there just over 20 years ago. Transferred by job to Ft Worth. Never looked back except to visit.

It is a beautiful state, no doubt. Unfortunately, a leopard is a pretty cat too but get to close and it is all over for you.


44 posted on 04/23/2012 7:35:30 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: TurboZamboni

Look, the politics here are liberal and terrible.

But do note, as you all complain of how horrible Californians are and how you don’t want us ruining your state, that there are MORE solid conservatives here than in your state. CA started Free Republic and CA donates more than most states. There are great people here too.


45 posted on 04/23/2012 7:36:24 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: super7man
"Will you let me in if I show you the 10,000 rounds of .223 that I am bringing with me?"

With open arms.

It's those who have seen the future who prepare for it.

46 posted on 04/23/2012 7:39:58 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing is more enlightening than truth. Nothing is darker than mendacity.)
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To: super7man
"Will you let me in if I show you the 10,000 rounds of .223 that I am bringing with me?"

With open arms.

It's those who have seen the future who prepare for it.

47 posted on 04/23/2012 7:39:58 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing is more enlightening than truth. Nothing is darker than mendacity.)
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To: GreyFriar
"Perhaps someone will write a novel about this reversal of the story line in 'The Grapes of Wrath.'”

It was a movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

48 posted on 04/23/2012 7:43:48 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing is more enlightening than truth. Nothing is darker than mendacity.)
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To: central_va

Don’t send them to the Midwest. Winters are cold here, and we all talk like they do in “Fargo”.


49 posted on 04/23/2012 7:44:05 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

***Yea,like they’re in the process of ruining Colorado!****

39 years ago when I lived in Pagosa Springs, the most popular bumper stickers were VIOLET’S ARMY! (A support for the King Coal mine) and DON’T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO! Well, they have.

I’ve noticed that every place that is beautiful in the mountains, the wierdos have taken over because of lib outsiders taking over the city councils.


50 posted on 04/23/2012 7:44:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Mr Rogers

What do you do if they don’t want to leave the ranch?


51 posted on 04/23/2012 7:49:15 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Yaelle

Lots of solid conservatives without balls compared to the majority of liberals that have balls. Complacency (”I’m doing OK”) is our downfall. No organization to rid the cancer of liberalism and fraud.

Enjoyed the conversation...have a 10AM tee time. Gotta go.


52 posted on 04/23/2012 8:09:23 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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To: TurboZamboni
the mass exodus from the state is offset by the hordes of illegal alien invaders from mexico. They bring nothing at all to offer other than the illegal votes necessary to keep the entrenched in power thus allowing the continued destruction of the state.
53 posted on 04/23/2012 8:21:44 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: paul51

I predict CA will start printing its own fiat currency in violation of the USC. THey will skirt the issue by calling them state “vouchers” for service.


54 posted on 04/23/2012 8:26:55 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Yaelle

I never said Californians are terrible.

I have friends there.(I’m in MN) I know that. Met nice folks there on vacation last month in Sonoma County.

Being from MN, I know our reputation isn’t for attracting the best and brightest either. In fact, when CA leftard legislators think up a dumb law, we’re usually the next state to try to replicate it.


55 posted on 04/23/2012 8:42:19 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: TurboZamboni

It is still a great place to live. It is the big metroplexes that are bad everywhere. The central valley is mostly conservative and still a great palce to raise your kids. Let everyone leave and keep reducing the population and let all the illegals and any growth continue in the welfare run metroplexes becasue they will implode first just as many SOCAL cities are already going bankrupt.


56 posted on 04/23/2012 9:01:21 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: TurboZamboni
It is still a great place to live. It is the big metroplexes that are bad everywhere. The central valley is mostly conservative and still a great place to raise your kids. Let everyone leave and keep reducing the population and let all the illegals and any growth continue in the welfare run metroplexes because they will implode first just as many SOCAL cities are already going bankrupt.
57 posted on 04/23/2012 9:02:33 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: TurboZamboni

I think a good description of California as having a “Dust Bowl government”.

It makes sense: from Sacramento, never ending torrents of hot air that destroys crops and blows the fertile soil out of state, leaving behind nothing but misery and deprivation.

So now there are “Grapes of Wrath”-like refugees fleeing the place to seek their fortunes elsewhere.


58 posted on 04/23/2012 9:14:18 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("It is already like a government job," he said, "but with goats." -- Iranian goat smuggler)
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To: Noumenon
Here in northern Idaho, it usually takes only one real winter. Then the for sale signs pop up in the Spring. They’ll leave before the places sell.

I've seen that effect in Texas, too. A lot of Californians, especially the squishy liberal types, can't handle the brutal Texas summers. Even with ice cold air conditioning, there's no complete escape from the 24/7 oven temps out here.

59 posted on 04/23/2012 9:19:08 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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