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Northeast loses 40% of House seats as people flee high-tax states
Washington Examiner ^ | Sept. 30,2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 09/30/2014 6:24:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk

The Northeast, once the nation’s political engine that produced presidents, House speakers and Senate giants including the late Edward M. Kennedy, is losing clout in Washington as citizens flee the high-tax region, according to experts worried about the trend.

The Census Bureau reports that population growth has shifted to the South and the result is that the 11 states that make up the Northeast are being bled dry of representation in Washington.

Critics blame rising taxes in states such as Massachusetts and Connecticut for limiting population growth in the Northeast to just 15 percent from 1983 to 2013, while the rest of the nation grew more than 41 percent.

This result is one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in American history. This migration is shifting the power center of America right before our very eyes. The movement isn’t random or even about weather or resources. Economic freedom is the magnet and states ignore this force at their own peril,” said the report.

While the states from Pennsylvania to Maine had 141 House members in 1950, they are down to 85 today, a drop of some 40 percent.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: Hojczyk

Wouldn’t these be a lot of democrat seats?


21 posted on 09/30/2014 7:01:47 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Hojczyk

Let the NE Leftist bastards bleed to death. They won’t be missed.


22 posted on 09/30/2014 7:03:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ConservativeStatement

Yeah, but we outnumber them...


23 posted on 09/30/2014 7:05:07 PM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: Hojczyk

This is good news if the folks that move are not Socialists/Progressive/Communists. If they are, tell them to stay put, we don’t need them here in the Southeast.


24 posted on 09/30/2014 7:05:36 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Hojczyk

All you folks living in Southern states which are receiving a good amount of these Yankee liberal types, you need to be loud and proud with your Southern culture. Either scare them back home, or convert them (or convert their kids). Good luck.


25 posted on 09/30/2014 7:07:03 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

I moved from New Jersey to Texas in 1988 in part to get away from the limousine liberal mentality. Unlike some Yankees I run into down here, Texas is my home. Queen Sheila the carpetbagger needs to go back to Jackson Heights, Queens, Noo Yawk.


26 posted on 09/30/2014 7:25:15 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: manc

Not all of us are up here willingly and the less people here the better. I’m here only because my dad retired here from the AF in 1972 and I’m here for work (which has provided me a very stable and good paying job).

Yes, they do tend to soil where they move to but 50% of them are conservatives getting out of Dodge too.

FWIW, my relatives are in NC and I do just fine there with the most hardened of Southerners.


27 posted on 09/30/2014 7:25:51 PM PDT by Minsc
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To: Hojczyk

Good... I live in the blue Northeast and I hate it! I love the seasons and love the beauty, but I hate the way conservatives have no voice. So if our blue states up here lose their significance and their power to influence the rest of the country, then cheers to all who leave and a great big thank you to all. We can’t seem to vote them out, so silencing them is next best thing I guess. Sorry to the states getting our progressives, but power to the ones getting our conservatives, which I believe are the majority of those bailing out. I hope to leave as soon as I retire.


28 posted on 09/30/2014 7:28:17 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: ConservativeStatement

The Northeast actually began its decent into irrelevance in the 60’s, with the decline of Route 128, IBM, and basically the entirety of upstate NY, which was once a high-tech and industrial powerhouse (hard to believe, but true).

When I was a kid, most TV/radio originated in NYC.

Bottom line, the country’s center of gravity has moved southwest, and there’s very little that the NE can do about it, except change, which they won’t.


29 posted on 09/30/2014 7:28:40 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: fr_freak

We have tried for decades.

The damned union Yankees are like locusts or an out of control virus.

They swarm and infest/infect every area they come in contact with, after they leave their original host state/nation.

We are not allowed to “discriminate”, and must allow them to nest wherever they wish to swarm.
And they all wish to “swarm” after achieving retirement/disability designations elsewhere, to states with no income taxes.


30 posted on 09/30/2014 7:30:55 PM PDT by sarasmom (The Benghazi Brief – (Extortion 17 also partially explained))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Its like a cancer. Libs kill their host, and move on to new cells.


31 posted on 09/30/2014 7:31:31 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: The Antiyuppie

M*A*S*H portrayed Charles Emerson Winchester as a crusty, rich, conservative from Back Bay (Boston). My how times have changed...except for the “rich” and “crusty” parts. :-)


32 posted on 09/30/2014 7:31:58 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

David Ogdon Stiers, who played the part, based him on William Buckley.


33 posted on 09/30/2014 7:33:17 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius

I was unaware of that piece of trivia.

A memorable quote:
“Know this. You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer!”


34 posted on 09/30/2014 7:40:25 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: posterchild

Even the ladies?


35 posted on 09/30/2014 7:41:21 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: The Antiyuppie
which was once a high-tech and industrial powerhouse (hard to believe, but true).

Yes. Unionization drove all of that sort of manufacturing to Japan. In 1960 electronics was all the rage and there were hundreds of US companies with names that ended in -ion or -eon. Today only one company, Raytheon, survives from that era.

36 posted on 09/30/2014 7:42:13 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: AnAmericanMother

That’s him.


37 posted on 09/30/2014 7:43:49 PM PDT by posterchild (It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
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To: Alberta's Child

exactly. The companies are fleeing and the people go where they can find a job.


38 posted on 09/30/2014 7:49:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: ConservativeStatement
Some relocate but bring their horrible voting habits with them.

They're like Parasitic bacteria...once they kill their hosts, they move on to another healthy body.

39 posted on 09/30/2014 7:54:43 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: Hojczyk

The blue states will probably try exit taxes.


40 posted on 09/30/2014 8:09:26 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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