“The flight from California is not good news for the rest of the nation. The refugees bring California with them wherever they go. “Colorado is nice but it needs more land use ordinances.” Idaho is nice but it needs more regulation of(fill in the blank).” That leads to the (excuse me)Californication of the rest of the West”
And this is one of the core reasons the country is “moving left”, and why conservatism, per se, is in danger of becoming a shrinking force within American politics.
As the blue state refugees flock to the red states, we are seeing the once “solid red” states change to purple. Eventually, the purple may fade to blue.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to halt these changing colors, at least in some of the “border states” like Nevada.
I was one of the first to predict this migration, posting a series of articles in the old, long-gone “Issues” forum of America Online in 1993. Back then, I called my theory “The Coming Cultural White Flight”. And it has become exactly that.
- John
This is interesting. There are the same number of liberals, but since they are distributed over more states, there will be more liberal states. This makes me wonder if the liberal plans to get rid of or water down the electoral college might be abandoned.