Escape From New York? High-Taxing Empire State Loses 3.4 Million Residents in 10 Years

Unfortunately they take their politics with them. The same is happening here in Arizona. We get all the California refugees who are now trying to californicate Arizona.

That refrain is too common on this forum. It's most likely false. It may be true for some of them, but not for the majority. If your political situation has been moving leftwards, it's more likely that it's homegrown.

Michael Barone: Echo-Chamber Politics

The rest of us have increasingly sought out comfortable cocoons, too. Journalist Bill Bishop, who lives in an Austin, Texas, neighborhood whose politics resemble Kael’s, started looking at national data.
It inspired him to write his 2009 book The Big Sort, which describes how Americans since the 1970s have increasingly sorted themselves out, moving to places where almost everybody shares their cultural orientation and political preference — and the others keep quiet about theirs.
Thus professionals with a choice of where to make their livings head for the San Francisco Bay Area if they’re liberal and for the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex (they really do call it that) if they’re conservative. Over the years the Bay Area becomes more liberal and the Metroplex more conservative.

OK then why is Arizona considered up for grabs as a blue state turnover when:

Hispanic immigration is down (they are all going to California) and

California migration to Arizona is up, particularly in hourly and manufacturing sectors?

The area they are moving to in particular is Tucson, home of Red Raul Grijalva. According to your own reference "...moving to places where almost everybody shares their cultural orientation and political preference ."

In the last congressional election grijalva lost the non-Tucson metro area vote by a ratio of 60-40% But, he won re-election by about 3% because the Tucson metro area overrode the rest of his district.

I tend to agree that the dims are smoking the giggle weed if they think Arizona is going blue next election.

The state is hugely in favor of SB 1070 and the nation in general is very positive about the concept.

The feds have ceeded parts of southern Arizona to the cartels I think this happened before Fast and Furious.

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