[Buttons12]

Until recently everyone in my family lived in New York or New Jersey. 2 still have homes in Northern NJ, 1 in Long Island, 1 in Manhattan. Everyone else fled to rural areas of neighboring states. It wasn’t the taxes so much as the crime rate.
The crime, and the fact that you have no option but to suck it up and call 911 if you’re able.
Here in PA, “911 is for cleanup.”

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I can’t wait to out-migrate from the People’s Democratic Republic of California. I hate this commie state.

[Ciexyz]

What about in-state migration of Democratic civil service people, lawyers, healthcare executives, teachers, from high-crime urban areas to conservative Republican suburbs which turn the suburbs Democratic.

[posterchild]

More than 1 million descendants of Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants from the three-state region around New York City and from metro Philadelphia have moved south along Interstate 95. That migration has left those metro areas, competitive in 1988, solidly Democratic.

And those internal migrants have made Virginia and Florida, and to a lesser extent the Carolinas and Georgia, more Democratic. Virginia, solidly Republican in the 1980s, voted at the national average in the Obama elections and has tilted more Democratic this year. North Carolina, competitive in the last two elections, is so again.

These 2 sentences seem to contradict each other. How are the people heading south from NYC and PHL leaving a slight conservative vacuum there yet making MD,VA, NC, SC, GA and FL more liberal?