As I was growing up, Oregon was a commonsense state. Now it has a left-wing perpetual super majority in the legislature because of Californians. Oregon had its last Republican governor in 1987. Tom McCall, who was governor until 1975, made a point of telling people they could visit Oregon but were not welcomed to move and he was a Democrat. I have had a chance to see the state degenerate being born here in 1946.
I have a friend who has been involved in Arizona politics for decades and he has seen the state changed from red to purple. He regrets the best they can do now is elect a RINO like McCain.
I hope Texas or Florida can be an exception, because that is where we intend to move.
I don’t see liberals as thinking people. I see them as feeling people. Many are bright, right to the point of being brilliant. Still, I see most as feeling, rather than thinking.
Conservatives will move to a state because it is a good fit. We then don’t want to change it too much. It is already a good fit. We are going to try to fine tune it, but not make wholesale changes.
Liberals move to a state because it is pretty or it is warm or they like some feature. Then they spend the rest of their lives making wholesale changes aimed at everything they don’t like, because they didn’t really think their move through very thoroughly.